Priscilla (MSCOZY) reviewed on 12/24/2009

Helpful Score: 2

It is 1889 and young Dr. Carroll comes to Philadelphia to study medicine under the auspices of Dr. Osler, a brilliant man ahead of his time. One day while doing autopsies, Dr. Osler acts very strange upon coming upon the corpse of a young and beautiful girl. Another young doctor, "Turk", also behaves oddly and both reactions are noted by Dr. Carroll. Dr. Carroll has a suspicion of something being a little weird when Turk invites him out at night, something he has never done before. Then the next day Turk is found dead and matters really begin to get worse. It is well written, I thought, and atmospheric of the time period. The many insights into how medicine was at that time and some of the new developments were quite interesting, insightful and informative.

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