In the following pages I have attempted to bring together from the pens of several authors who have written expressly for this book, the more interesting phases of the history, literature, folk-lore, etc., of the medical profession. If the same welcome be given to this work as was accorded to those I have previously produced, my labours will not have been in vain. William Andrews. The Hull Press,
Hull, November 11th, 1895.
Contents. | Barber-Surgeons. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | 1 | | Touching for the King’s Evil. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | 8 | | Visiting Patients | 22 | | Assaying Meat and Drink. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | 24 | | The Gold-headed Cane. By Tom Robinson, M.D. | 32 | | Magic and Medicine. By Cuming Walters | 42 | | Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic. By W. H. Thompson | 70 | | The Doctors Shakespeare Knew. By A. H. Wall | 76 | | Dickens’ Doctors. By Thomas Frost | 90 | | Famous Literary Doctors. By Cuming Walters | 102 | | The “Doctor” in Time of Pestilence. By William E. A. Axon, F.R.S.L. | 125 | | Mountebanks and Medicine. By Thomas Frost | 140 | | The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox. By Thomas Frost | 153 | | Burkers and Body-Snatchers. By Thomas Frost | 167 | | Reminiscences of the Cholera. By Thomas Frost | 181 | | Some Old Doctors. By Mrs. G. LinnÆus Banks | 192 | | The Lee Penny | 209 | | How Our Fathers were Physicked. By J. A. Langford, LL.D. | 216 | | Medical Folk-Lore. By John Nicholson | 234 | Of Physicians and their Fees, with some Personal Reminiscences.
By Andrew James Symington, F.R.S.N.A. | 252 | | Index | 285 |
THE DOCTOR
IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FOLK-LORE.
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