I HAVE recorded the following episodes in my Indian career at the repeated suggestion of many of my patients who have been kind enough to listen to an Irishmans yarns. My boyhood was devoid of incident, and I will therefore begin when I went from my public school at Sherborne to Guys Hospital in October, 18 92. It was not originally intended that I should go in for medicine, although there were several members of the profession in my family, including Barry OMeara, Napoleons doctor, the author of A voice from St. Helena or Napoleon in Exile, an indictment of the treatment of that great man by Sir Hudson Lowe, the Governor. The decision was largely due to Sir Alfred Lethbridge of the Indian Medical Service, who acted as my guardian after my fathers death in I888. Once I had begun my medical course I looked forward to the possibility of passing into the Indian Medical Service and all that a career in India held out. Of all my hospital experiences, none was more trying than the...

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