A Book About Doctors

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
Something about Sticks, and rather less about Wigs	5
CHAPTER II.
Early English Physicians	18
CHAPTER III.
Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby	38
CHAPTER IV.
Sir Hans Sloane	51
CHAPTER V.
The Apothecaries and Sir Samuel Garth	63
CHAPTER VI.
Quacks	82
CHAPTER VII.
John Radcliffe	111
CHAPTER VIII.
The Doctor as a bon-vivant	144
CHAPTER IX.
Fees	163
CHAPTER X.
Pedagogues turned Doctors	183
CHAPTER XI.
The Generosity and Parsimony of Physicians	202
CHAPTER XII.
Bleeding	225
CHAPTER XIII.
Richard Mead	239
CHAPTER XIV.
Imagination as a Remedial Power	255
CHAPTER XV.
Imagination and Nervous Excitement—Mesmer	280
CHAPTER XVI.
Make way for the Ladies!	287
CHAPTER XVII.
Messenger Monsey	311
CHAPTER XVIII.
Akenside	327
CHAPTER XIX.
Lettsom	335
CHAPTER XX.
A few More Quacks	345
CHAPTER XXI.
St. John Long	356
CHAPTER XXII.
The Quarrels of Physicians	374
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Loves of Physicians	393
CHAPTER XXIV.
Literature and Art	421
CHAPTER XXV.
Number Eleven—a Hospital Story	442
CHAPTER XXVI.
Medical Buildings	462
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Country Medical Man	478

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Prof. Billroth's Surgical Clynic.[1]	Frontispiece
From the Original Painting by A. F. Seligmann.

The Founders of the Medical Society of London	228
From the Original Painting.

An Accident[1]	258
From the Original Painting by Dagnan-Vouveret.

The Anatomist	374
From the Original Painting by Max.

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