Please choose a section:

1. Dartmouth stories

• How Dr Koop nearly froze to death
• The ski jump that ended with a spinal concussion
• The fairy shrimp "eubranchipus koopii"

2. Hanover stories

• How the township of Hanover was laid out
• How murder got Dr Koop a farm in Hanover
• Other Hanover murder tales
• The crank of the grinding wheel

3. Other stories

• The "Medal of the Legion of Honor of France"
• Why Harvard's Pediatric Surgeons use their nails
• The great characters of old time surgery have gone

• Acknowledgements