Preface.
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.
| Barber-Surgeons. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | [1] |
| Touching for the King’s Evil. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | [8] |
| Visiting Patients | [22] |
| Assaying Meat and Drink. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S. | [24] |
| The Gold-headed Cane. By Tom Robinson, M.D. | [32] |
| Magic and Medicine. By Cuming Walters | [42] |
| Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic. By W. H. Thompson | [70] |
| The Doctors Shakespeare Knew. By A. H. Wall | [76] |
| Dickens’ Doctors. By Thomas Frost | [90] |
| Famous Literary Doctors. By Cuming Walters | [102] |
| The “Doctor” in Time of Pestilence. By William E. A. Axon, F.R.S.L. | [125] |
| Mountebanks and Medicine. By Thomas Frost | [140] |
| The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox. By Thomas Frost | [153] |
| Burkers and Body-Snatchers. By Thomas Frost | [167] |
| Reminiscences of the Cholera. By Thomas Frost | [181] |
| Some Old Doctors. By Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks | [192] |
| The Lee Penny | [209] |
| How Our Fathers were Physicked. By J. A. Langford, LL.D. | [216] |
| Medical Folk-Lore. By John Nicholson | [234] |
| Of Physicians and their Fees, with some Personal Reminiscences. By Andrew James Symington, F.R.S.N.A. | [252] |
| Index | [285] |
THE DOCTOR
IN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FOLK-LORE.