The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
HENRY VIII. RECEIVING THE BARBER-SURGEONS.
THE DOCTOR IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, FOLK-LORE, ETC.
EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S., Author of “Bygone England,” “Old Church Lore,” etc.
HULL: WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., THE HULL PRESS. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO., LTD. 1896.
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.
THE DOCTOR IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FOLK-LORE.
By William Andrews, f.r.h.s.
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THE DOCTOR.
Preface.
Barber-Surgeons.
Touching for the King’s Evil.
Visiting Patients.
Assaying Meat and Drink.
The Gold-headed Cane.
Magic and Medicine.
Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic.
The Doctors Shakespeare Knew.
Dickens’ Doctors.
Famous Literary Doctors.
The “Doctor” in time of Pestilence.
Mountebanks and Medicine.
The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox.
Burkers and Body-Snatchers.
Reminiscences of the Cholera.
Some Old Doctors.
The Lee Penny.
How Our Fathers were Physicked.
Medical Folk-Lore.
Of Physicians and their Fees,