CONTENTS.

PAGE.
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]