"A Mortal Antipathy" is a medical fiction novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maurice Kirkword, Esq. a young gentle man had rented some rooms of a building in the Stoughton University community. But his reclusive ways and vague answers soon piques the curiosity of the community. A rumour soon developed that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation…