Over the Hookah: The Tales of a Talkative Doctor

by George Frank Lydston

A collection of stories and anecdotes based on the medical profession are recounted "over the hookah" by Doctor William Weymouth. Though divided into about a dozen sections, the present volume is best thought of as a single digressive potpourri, eccentric and sui generis. The fantastic motifs, verbal and visual, include a talking skull, a bibulous cat and turtle, an airborne gondola.The author was a physician (a specialist in uro-genital disease and surgery) as well as a criminal anthropologist.
Nearly 175 illustrations provided by C. Everett Johnson.

634 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1896

About the author

George Frank Lydston (1858–1923) was a Chicago urologist, eugenicist, and social reformer.