# A Mortal Antipathy

Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2698

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Mortal+Antipathy+Holmes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“A MORTAL ANTIPATHY” was a truly hazardous experiment. A very wise and very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literature as he is in science and the practice of medicine, wrote to me in referring to this story: “I should have been afraid of my subject.” He did not explain himself, but I can easily understand that he felt the improbability of the physiological or pathological occurrence on which the story is founded to be so great that the narrative could hardly be rendered plausible. I felt the difficulty for myself as well as for my readers, and it was only by recalling for our consideration a series of extraordinary but well-authenticated facts of somewhat similar charac...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-mortal-antipathy-2698/chapters/2/index.md)