- When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries to retrieve the check, the quack (Dr. Bell) turns up dead with a gun shot wound to the chest. Doc Arnold lends his expertise to the investigation and solves the case by finding microscopic evidence on the murder weapon left at the scene.—Dana Cocke'
- "Drowsy," Doc, Arnold's office boy, awakens long enough now and then to inform occasional stray patients: "No, the Doc ain't in; he don't come here much." Doc Arnold is indeed busy elsewhere, bug-hunting, not microbes nor bacilli, but insects. The Dayton family retire from the farm and move "in town." Father Dayton sick with every symptom of every disease he can hear of; Hilda, the handsome hired help, who sighs for the admiration of men; silly Jud, the half-witted man of all work; and, last and best of the family, Jessie Dayton, the daughter, who lives only to collect postage stamps, until she meets Doc Arnold, the other "bug." Father Dayton rushes with his symptoms to Doc Arnold, and is told that he should eat less and exercise more. The "sick" man goes in a rage to Dr. Bell the great "specialist," just come to town with an imposing staff, to prey on the 'hicks." The hypochondriac is welcomed and "taken in." Jessie and her aunt depart for the Chautauqua, and Doc Arnold follows, more ardently than ever he followed the rarest butterfly. In her absence Dr. Bell takes up his residence in the Dayton house "to save the life of the very sick" (and very rich) owner, who almost dies under his ministrations. The great specialist is not too busy to find time to caress the chin of handsome Hilda, the hired help. Jessie returns just in time to hear her father cry, "The scoundrel robbed me and has left me to die." The great specialist having just induced him to sign a check for a very large sum. Jessie snatches a revolver, and crying that she will kill the man who has robbed and almost murdered her father, through malpractice, rushes after the doctor, and on the porch struggles with him for the possession of the note. Doc Arnold and Mrs. Simpson, who have followed Jessie to the house, arrive just in time to hear the shot and to find Jessie beside the dead quack doctor and the still smoking revolver which lies on the floor. She says that she did not kill him. At the inquest Doc Arnold with his bug-hunting microscope identifies the user of the gun as someone afflicted with tuberculosis, and the crime is thus fastened upon half-witted Jud, who has killed the "specialist" through jealousy because of Bell's betrayal of Hilda with whom Jud himself is in love.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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