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All free classicsThe Adventures of François
Fat and Blood
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
The Youth of Washington
The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow
The Red City
Wear and Tear
Doctor and Patient
Westways
The Wonderful Stories of Fuz-Buz the Fly and Mother Grabem the Spider
A Madeira Party
Constance Trescot
When All the Woods Are Green
A Diplomatic Adventure
About Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia and erythromelalgia, and pioneered the rest cure.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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