Red Pepper Burns
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About This Book
Redfield Pepper Burns, M.D., has flaming red hair and all of the temper and vivacity said to go with it. The small-town physician and surgeon maintains a grueling schedule, racing with his nurse from call to call in a powerful touring car, the Green Imp. He must contend with epidemics, professional jealousies, stubborn or deadbeat patients, and a lack of sophisticated surgical instruments. In this first volume of "Red Pepper" Burns stories, the doctor saves a friend from morphine addiction, takes in a young orphan, suffers an accident that may cripple his scalpel hand, and finally looks up fro...
Chapters (15)
- RED PEPPER BURNS
- CHAPTER I. IN WHICH HE VOWS A VOW
- CHAPTER II. IN WHICH HE CREATES A CIRCUS
- CHAPTER III. IN WHICH HE ASSUMES A RESPONSIBILITY
- CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH HE MAKES A CONCESSION
- CHAPTER V. IN WHICH HE IS ROUGH ON A FRIEND
- CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH HE PRESCRIBES FOR HIMSELF
- CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH HE CONTINUES TO SAW WOOD
- CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH HE IS UNREASONABLY PREOCCUPIED
- CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH HE SUFFERS A DEFEAT
- CHAPTER X. IN WHICH HE PROVES HIMSELF A HOST
- CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH HE GETS EVEN WITH HIMSELF
- CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH HE HAS HIS OWN WAY
- CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH HE MAKES NO EVENING CALL
- CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH HE DEFIES SUPERSTITION
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