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The Perfect Gentleman
By June Rose
James Barry was one of the most outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century—a brilliant surgeon, a tireless campaigner for medical reform, and a compassionate Inspector-General of the Army. But throughout a long and distinguished career an air of secrecy, even of scandal, always clung to Barry. The shrill voice, the diminutive build, the almost ostentatious humanity—all struck a discordant note in the stiff, conventional world of the officers' mess.
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