Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Introduction 2
4. A Session with doctor noir
5. The patient's temperament 4
6. The Symptoms 7
7. Complications from the "Blue Devils" 11
8. The Tale of the mad flea
9. The tale of the mad flea 15
10. An interruption 15
11. Sequel of doctor noir's story 17
12. CREDO 17
13. Only half mad 18
14. The tale of the mad flea (continued) 23
15. An Improvement 28
16. The COT 30
17. An interruption 31
18. One thought for another 33
19. The story of kitty bell
20. The story of kitty bell 36
21. An english letter 40
22. Wherein the action is interrupted by erudition 46
23. Continuation of the story of kitty bell: The benefactor 52
24. The staircase 59
25. Pity and sorrow 63
26. A Tale of the terror
27. A Tale of the terror 71
28. The kind cannoneer 79
29. A sweet old man 82
30. The hieroglyphs of the kind cannoneer 87
31. Saint-Lazare 90
32. A young mother 93
33. The Straw-Bottomed chair 97
34. A woman is always a child 101
35. The dining-hall 103
36. The ammunition-wagon 117
37. The house of M. de Robespierre, parliamentary advocate 120
38. A Legislator 125
39. On the substitution of expiatory suffering 128
40. Two strollers 132
41. A little amusement 135
42. A Summer evevning 144
43. Round and round the wheel of fortune 150
44. Of perpetual ostracism 161
45. Homer's heaven 163
46. The social lie 169
47. Doctor noir's prescription 176
48. Outcome OF the consultation 179
49. The end 180
50. Notes 181