INDEX.

A
Amen Corner, The College of Physicians in, [117]
Anatomy, [87]
Anne, Queen, [27-48];
her illness, [48];
and death, [35];
Radcliffe blamed by the public, [36]
Antimony, its use and disuse in medicine, [99]
Arcanum Goddardianum, [203]
Aristophanes, Hamey’s notes and criticisms on, [101]
Ascites, tapping in, [70]
Aselli, [92]
Askew, Dr., [149];
a great traveller, [150];
a great book collector, [151];
makes bibliomania fashionable, [155]
B
Baillie, Dr. Matthew, [225];
his appearance and manner, [229];
treatise on morbid anatomy, [226];
his practice, [230]
Baker, Sir George, his profound attainments, [115];
his Latin pleasantries, [217], [218]
Banks, Sir Joseph, P.R.S., [227]
Baronet, the first medical, [54]
Bibliotheca Askeviana, [157]
Bidloo, Dr., [8-22]
Boerhaave, [240]
British Museum, [193]
Burnet, Bishop, his last illness, [52];
attended by Sir Hans Sloane, Cheyne, and Mead, [52]
C
Caius, Dr., [86]
Caldwall, Dr., and Lord Lumley found lectures at the College of Physicians, [89]
Cane, The Gold-Headed, its origin, [4], [184];
its description, [xix];
in seclusion, [253]
Charles I, Halford’s connection with, [xiii]
Charles II, at the Royal Society, [203];
an experimenter, [204];
bled by Sir Edmund King, [189]
Cheyne, Dr., his enormous weight, [54];
attends his relation, Bishop Burnet, in his last illness, [55]
Cheselden, the surgeon, [134] (note)
Cinchona bark, [97]
College of Physicians, opening of the, [2];
sites of, in Knight Rider Street, [114];
in Amen Corner, [117];
in Warwick Lane, [131];
under presidency of Sir Henry Halford, [xvi]
Consultations, medical, [56]
Cullen, Dr., [177]
Cumberland, the Duke of, takes the electric shock at the point of the sword with which he fought the battle of Culloden, [145]
D
Diet, importance of, [233]
Dorchester, the Marquis of, a Fellow of the College of Physicians, [103]
E
Edwards, George, the naturalist, his book on birds, [186];
his visits to Sir Hans Sloane at Chelsea, [190]
Ent, Sir George, his interview with Harvey, [111];
obtains the MS., “Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium,” [112];
is Knighted by Charles II. in the College of Physicians, [125]
Esculapius, the mourning, [30]
Eugene, the Prince, [30]
F
Fees, medical, [38]
Fire of London, [127]
Fox, Dr., his death-bed and farewell to Hamey, [106]
Freind, Dr., committed to the Tower, [72];
visited there by Mead, [73];
liberated through Mead’s intervention, [75];
at Mead’s house, [78]
G
Garth, Sir Samuel, [104]
George, Prince of Denmark, [27]
Glisson, Dr., [90]
Goddard, Dr., [201]
Greaves, Sir Edward, the first medical baronet, [54]
H
Halford, Sir Henry, his life and career, [xii-xiv]
Haller, [241]
Hamey, Dr. Baldwin, [101];
liberality to the College of Physicians, inscription to, [124]
Harvey, William, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, [92];
Sir George Ent’s interview with him, [111];
“Generation of Animals,” [112];
his “Museum” at the College in Amen Corner, [118];
his preparations of vessels and nerves on tablets of wood, [121];
record of his death, [124];
bust, by Scheemaker, [109];
inscription, [187]
Heberden, Dr., the elder, [160], [165];
his literary tastes and associates, [167];
his liberality, [168];
his address and high principles, [171]
Hulse, Sir Edward, [162]
Hunter, Dr. William, [viii], [225]
I
Inoculation of small-pox, [65]
Isiaca, the Tabula or Mensa, [34]
J
Jenner, announces vaccination discovery, [242]
K
Kensington Palace in 1689, [6]
King, Sir Edmund, [189]
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, [15] (note)
Knight Rider Street, College of Physicians in, [114]
L
Library of College of Physicians, [185]
Linacre, the first President of the College, [81];
his portrait, [7]
Lower, Dr., on transfusion of blood, [93]
Luke, St., the Evangelist, a physician, his Greek more classical than that of the other evangelists, [74]
Lumley, Lord, and Dr. Caldwall, found lectures at the College of Physicians, [89]
Lymphatics, their discovery, [92]
M
Macmichael, William, life of, [xi], [xii];
appointed Physician to the King, [xiv];
works of, [xv];
death of, [xvi]
Mary, Queen of William III., [9]
Materia Medica, additions to, [96]
Mayow, Dr., his theory of respiration, [92]
Mead, Dr., an accomplished and liberal scholar, [vii], [32];
on plague and quarantine, [62];
inoculation of small-pox, [65];
tapping in dropsy, [70];
his politics, [71];
his library and collections, [79];
his liberality to scholars, [143];
great hospitality, [145];
his professional income, [146];
“Monita et Praecepta Medica,” [147];
bust of, by Roubiliac, [152]
Middleton, Dr. Conyers, [81]
Mithridatium, [160]
Munk, Dr., on Sir Henry Halford, [xiv];
on physicians’ canes, [xix]
Museum of Harvey, opening of, [120]
N
Newton, Sir Isaac, last illness of, [134]
Nias, Dr., [v]
Nicholls, Dr. Frank, [123] (note)
P
Page, Dame Mary, extraordinary case of, [70]
Pecquet, discovery of the thoracic duct, [92]
Philosophical Transactions, [201]
Pitcairn, Dr. Archibald, founder of mechanical sect of medicine, [174]
” Dr. David, [174-218];
illness and death of, [222]
” Dr. William, [174];
the leading physician in the city, [195]
Plague, the contagiousness of, [62], [127]
Polish dinner, a, [206]
Poniatowsky, Prince, [204]
Pringle, Sir John, President of the Royal Society, [140];
his addresses on delivery of the Copley medal, [142]
Q
Quarantine, Dr. Mead on, [63]
Quinin, discovery of, [97]
R
Radcliffe, Dr., his medical skill, [17];
his coarseness and plainness, [8], [18];
his prognosis, [19];
in love, [30];
his matrimonial intentions marred, [14];
blamed for death of Queen Anne, [36];
his history, [37];
his fees and income, [39];
his bequests, [40] (note), [vi];
his death, [50]
Radcliffe Infirmary, [v]
Ronjat, Mons., le premier chirurgien du Roi, [23], [24]
Roubiliac, his bust of Mead, and extortionate demand, [153]
Royal Society, its early history, [140], [199];
the qualifications for President of, [139];
Philosophical Transactions, [201]
S
Selden, John, [123]
Shaw, Dr. Peter, [183]
Sloane, Sir Hans, [54], et seq.;
in the West Indies, [59];
President of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society, [62], [140];
in his retirement at Chelsea, [191];
his botanical gardens at Chelsea, [192];
the British Museum, [193]
Small-pox, [242];
inoculation of, [65];
Dr. Mead’s advocacy of, [67]
Stahl, metaphysical theory of, [240]
Sydenham, [235];
his merits, [237];
on quinin, [98]
T
Talbor, Sir Richard, on quinin in fever, [98], [99]
Tabula, Isiaca, [34]
V
Vaccination, discovery by Jenner, [242]
Vanbutchel, Mrs., the mummy of, [218]
Vaughan, Henry, see Sir Henry Halford, [xii], et seq.
W
Warren, Dr. Richard, [175];
his Harveian oration, [184];
his character and eminent qualifications as a physician, [196]
Warwick Lane, the College of Physicians in, [131], [185]
Watson, Sir Thomas, on Dr. Macmichael, [xvi]
” Sir William, his experiments in electricity, [145]
William III., [8], [12], [21];
character of, [24]
Willis, Dr. Thomas, his merits as an anatomist, [95]
Wilmot, Sir Edward, [182]