Not only for students and doctors, this volume contains Williams's thirteen doctor stories, several of his most famous poems on medical matters, and The Practice from The Autobiography.

This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor.

In this classic swashbuckler, Peter Blood, a physician and an English gentleman, becomes a Caribbean pirate after suffering a grave injustice in Barbados.

Seventeenth-century physician Peter Blood, convicted of treason for treating a nobleman who was injured in a rebellion against King James II, is forced into life as a pirate and becomes the greatest buccaneer of all time.

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale.

It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways.

But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style.

After taking his experimental medicine, a kind and gentle doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman.