A Book about Doctors

About this eBook

Author

Jeaffreson, John Cordy, 1831-1901

Title

A Book About Doctors

Credits

Irma Špehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

R: Medicine

Subject

Physicians -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40161

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40161

Release Date

July 8, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's note: — A Book About DOCTORS — By
2. 2.John Cordy Jeaffreson
3. 3.CONTENTS. — ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — SOMETHING ABOUT STICKS, AND RATHER LESS ABOUT WIGS.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — EARLY ENGLISH PHYSICIANS.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND SIR KENELM DIGBY.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — SIR HANS SLOANE.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE APOTHECARIES AND SIR SAMUEL GARTH.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — QUACKS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — JOHN RADCLIFFE.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — THE DOCTOR AS A BON-VIVANT.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — FEES.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — PEDAGOGUES TURNED DOCTORS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — THE GENEROSITY AND THE PARSIMONY OF PHYSICIANS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — BLEEDING.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — RICHARD MEAD.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — IMAGINATION AS A REMEDIAL POWER.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — IMAGINATION AND NERVOUS EXCITEMENT. MESMER.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — MAKE WAY FOR THE LADIES!
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — MESSENGER MONSEY.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — AKENSIDE.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — LETTSOM.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — A FEW MORE QUACKS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — ST. JOHN LONG.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — THE QUARRELS OF PHYSICIANS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — THE LOVES OF PHYSICIANS.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — LITERATURE AND ART.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — NUMBER ELEVEN—A HOSPITAL STORY.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — MEDICAL BUILDINGS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE COUNTRY MEDICAL MAN.
33. 33.INDEX.
34. 34.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's note:

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