Part Ⅰ CAROLINIAN 1
1．Pioneer Pedagogues 3
2．An Indifferent Collegian 15
3．Theresa 21
4．Medical Education 26
5．The Stolen Shingle 35
Part Ⅱ ALABAMIAN 47
6．＂Do You Call That Thing a Doctor？＂ 49
7．Meanderings，Malaria，and Matrimony 58
8．The Road to Montgomery 66
9．Evolution of a Surgeon 73
10．Anarcha，Betsy，and Lucy 82
11．Trends，Trismus，and Triumph 93
12．Disaster 103
13．Displaced Persons 111
Part Ⅲ NEW YORKER 121
14．Low Tide 123
15．Growth of a Dream 136
16．Lady Managers and Others 144
17．The Woman＇s Hospital 155
18．Love Feasts and Lobbies 164
19．＂Relief of Suffering Womanhood＂ 175
20．Domestic Eden 186
21．Sims and Lister on Silver Sutures 190
22．The Cavilings of Lesser Men 194
23．Dilemma 200
Part Ⅳ AMERICAN ABROAD 205
24．Trial Flight 207
25．Between Two Worlds 223
26．Surgeon to a Duchess and an Empress 230
27．A Civil War Casualty 239
28．Authorship 243
29．Nostalgia 252
Part Ⅴ COSMOPOLITE 261
30．A Contradictory Welcome 263
31．Surgeon at Sedan 277
32．The Woman＇s Hospital Again 287
33．Explosion 295
34．Exalted Exile 306
35．The Calm and the Strife 316
36．Transatlantic Commuter 329
37．Frustration and Vindication 337
38．Pioneers in Gallbladder Surgery 344
39．Valedictory 350
40．＂The Story of My Life＂ 357
Appendix 367
Postmortems 369
Bibliography 393
Index 415