The Gold-Headed Cane - William Macmichael

[46] It is by Rysbrach, and cost £280.

[47] It is related of this gentleman that he corresponded with seventy different persons, and yet that he was very punctual; for he never read a letter without having pen, ink, and paper ready to write the answer, by which means he prevented his letters from accumulating, and himself from being fatigued, by having many answers to write at the same time.

[48] The fate of Poland is well known. The destiny of the family bearing the name of Poniatowsky has been equally disastrous. At the battle of Leipsic, wounded, and while covering the retreat of the French army, in attempting to leap the narrow stream which flows past that city, Prince Joseph Poniatowsky fell, and was drowned. A simple monument is erected to him in a garden, on the bank of the river where he perished, with this inscription upon it:

Hic
In Undis Elystri
Josephus Poniatowsky
Princeps
Summus Exercitûs Polonorum Præfectus,
Imperii Gallici Mareschallus, Tribus Vulneribus
Letiferis acceptis, Ultimus ex Acie discedens
Dum receptum magni Gallorum Exercitus tuetur,
Vitâ Gloriæ et Patriæ sacratâ functus est
Die 19 Octobris, An. 1813,
Anno Ætatis Impleto 52.
Popularis Populari, Duci Miles,
Hoc Monumentum, Lachyrmis suis irrigatum,
Posuit
Alexander Rozniecki.

[49] The benefit conferred upon his countrymen by this discovery was thus spoken of in an Harveian oration, delivered 1809:—Quòd si unum civem qui servasset, coronâ quondam civili esset donandus; quid ille meruit, qui totam provinciam in salutem vindicavit?

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]