Contents

INTRODUCTION by Robert Coles

Mind and Body

Old Doc Rivers

The Girl with a Pimply Face

The Use of Force

A Night in June

Jean Beicke

A Face of Stone

Danse Pseudomacabre

The Paid Nurse

Ancient Gentility

Verbal Transcription: 6 A.M.

The Insane

Comedy Entombed: 1930

The Practice (from The Autobiography)

POEMS

The Birth

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

Dead Baby

A Cold Front

The Poor

To Close

AFTERWORD: MY FATHER, THE DOCTOR
by William Eric Williams