Axel Munthe's autobiography offers insight into his professional
life as a doctor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his
life anecdotes ranging from the lighthearted to the deeply serious.
Titled after the ruined Italian chapel Munthe encountered and
desired to renovate, these memoirs span a series of stories taking
place over decades. Munthe does not discuss his personal life or
family, instead opting to describe the various medical procedures
and patients he encountered as a doctor working in a range of
different countries. Although some of the author's recollections
are clearly fictional - including a posthumous chapter set at the
gates at heaven - there are several chapters both eye-opening and
sobering for their seriousness. The constraints of the medicine of
the time are revealed in the frank recollections of patients whose
lives could not be saved, with Munthe instead opting to lessen
their suffering as they struggled through the later, painful stages
of illness.
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