CONTENTS.
George Vivian Poore
CHAPTER I.
LONDON FROM THE SANITARY POINT OF VIEW.
PAGE
Situation
7
Water Supply
10
MediÆval London
16
Gardens and Pleasure Grounds
18
Health of Old London
24
The London “Death Rate”
31
Improved Condition of Modern London
34
What is the Outlook?
36
Annual Death-Rate per 100,000 Living of Children under 5 Years of Age from Whooping-cough and Measles during the 10 Years 1871–80
41
The Loose End of our Sanitation
44
CHAPTER II.
LONDON FROM THE MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.
Chaucer’s Doctor
50
Earliest London Practitioners
53
The Severance of Medicine and Surgery
56
The Earliest Medical Act
59
The College of Physicians
60
The Plague
72
Secret Remedies
86
The Crusade against Quackery
89
Medicine in the Days of Pepys
92
The Barber-Surgeons
95
The First Anatomy Lectures
97
The Apothecaries
101
The Royal Society
101
Gresham College
103
The Earliest Hospitals
106
The Royal Hospitals
110
Early Hospital Practice
112
The Pharmacopoeias
117
The Rise of the Medical Schools
119
Hospitals Built by Public Benevolence
120
Modern Medical Schools and Examinations
123
London as a Place of Study
127
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