The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
by William Andrews
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Andrews, William, 1848-1908
- Credits
- Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- R: Medicine
- Subject
- Literature and medicine
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 39514
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39514
- Release Date
- April 23, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DOCTOR.
- 2.Preface.
- 3.Barber-Surgeons.
- 4.Touching for the King’s Evil.
- 5.Visiting Patients.
- 6.Assaying Meat and Drink.
- 7.The Gold-headed Cane.
- 8.Magic and Medicine.
- 9.Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic.
- 10.The Doctors Shakespeare Knew.
- 11.Dickens’ Doctors.
- 12.Famous Literary Doctors.
- 13.The “Doctor” in time of Pestilence.
- 14.Mountebanks and Medicine.
- 15.The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox.
- 16.Burkers and Body-Snatchers.
- 17.Reminiscences of the Cholera.
- 18.Some Old Doctors.
- 19.The Lee Penny.
- 20.How Our Fathers were Physicked.
- 21.Medical Folk-Lore.
- 22.Of Physicians and their Fees,
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