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Vrach (The Physician)
The Physician
also: Врач
A real St. Petersburg weekly medical journal (founded 1880) read by Russian doctors; Chekhov, himself a physician, mock-addresses his satirical case report to it as though submitting genuine clinical findings.
Reading notes
- The Only Remedy §26 the newspaper ``The Physician''
Vrach ("The Physician"), a real St. Petersburg weekly medical journal (founded 1880) read by Russian doctors; Chekhov, himself a doctor, addresses his mock case report to it as though submitting genuine clinical findings.
- Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals §5 Vrach
A real St. Petersburg weekly medical journal (founded 1880) read by Russian doctors.
- An Unpleasantness §39 The Physician
\emph{Vrach} ('The Physician'), a real St. Petersburg medical weekly (est. 1880) read by Russian doctors of Chekhov's own profession; the doctor fantasizes about writing a self-justifying letter to its pages.
- To N. A. Leikin, 11 September 1887. Moscow. §3 Vrach
"Vrach" (The Physician), a St. Petersburg weekly medical journal; Leikin had sent Chekhov a copy by wrapper post, and Chekhov -- himself a trained doctor -- promises to read it before bed and insists on covering the sixty-kopeck postage himself.