John Cordy Jeaffreson

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS

CHAPTER I. SOMETHING ABOUT STICKS, AND RATHER LESS ABOUT WIGS.

CHAPTER II. EARLY ENGLISH PHYSICIANS.

CHAPTER III. SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND SIR KENELM DIGBY.

CHAPTER IV. SIR HANS SLOANE.

CHAPTER V. THE APOTHECARIES AND SIR SAMUEL GARTH.

CHAPTER VI. QUACKS.

CHAPTER VII. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

CHAPTER VIII. THE DOCTOR AS A BON-VIVANT.

CHAPTER IX. FEES.

CHAPTER X. PEDAGOGUES TURNED DOCTORS.

CHAPTER XI. THE GENEROSITY AND THE PARSIMONY OF PHYSICIANS.

CHAPTER XII. BLEEDING.

CHAPTER XIII. RICHARD MEAD.

CHAPTER XIV. IMAGINATION AS A REMEDIAL POWER.

CHAPTER XV. IMAGINATION AND NERVOUS EXCITEMENT. MESMER.

CHAPTER XVI. MAKE WAY FOR THE LADIES!

CHAPTER XVII. MESSENGER MONSEY.

CHAPTER XVIII. AKENSIDE.

CHAPTER XIX. LETTSOM.

CHAPTER XX. A FEW MORE QUACKS.

CHAPTER XXI. ST. JOHN LONG.

CHAPTER XXII. THE QUARRELS OF PHYSICIANS.

CHAPTER XXIII. THE LOVES OF PHYSICIANS.

CHAPTER XXIV. LITERATURE AND ART.

CHAPTER XXV. NUMBER ELEVEN A HOSPITAL STORY.

CHAPTER XXVI. MEDICAL BUILDINGS.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE COUNTRY MEDICAL MAN.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

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