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My First Patient single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 My First Patient
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English tale of a mental specialist's first patient in 1870. A Berkshire man calls in the narrator to give an opinion on his wife's peculiar terror. It is several days before the doctor realises it is the husband himself who has a homicidal mania, determining to kill their infant son and drink his blood. Slight. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 327 August 1892 Z1040115 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 677-679
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