Transcriber's note: Spelling and punctuation are sometimes erratic. A few obvious misprints have been corrected, but in general the original spelling and typesetting conventions have been retained. Accents are inconsistent, and have not been standardised. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. THE DOCTOR'S RECREATION SERIES CHARLES WELLS MOULTON _General Editor_ VOLUME FOUR [Illustration: _PROF. BILLROTH'S SURGICAL CLYNIC_ _A. F. SELLIGMANN, PINX._ _COPYRIGHT 1892 WM. WOOD & CO. NEW YORK_] [Illustration: title page] A Book About DOCTORS By John Cordy Jeaffreson Author of "The Real Lord Byron," "The Real Shelley," "A Book About Lawyers," etc., etc. 1904 THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK AKRON, O. CHICAGO COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY THE WERNER COMPANY AKRON, O. CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. Something about Sticks, and rather less about Wigs 5 CHAPTER II. Early English Physicians 18 CHAPTER III. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby 38 CHAPTER IV. Sir Hans Sloane 51 CHAPTER V. The Apothecaries and Sir Samuel Garth 63 CHAPTER VI. Quacks 82 CHAPTER VII. John Radcliffe 111 CHAPTER VIII. The Doctor as a _bon-vivant_ 144 CHAPTER IX. Fees 163 CHAPTER X. Pedagogues turned Doctors 183 CHAPTER XI. The Generosity and Parsimony of Physicians 202 CHAPTER XII. Bleeding 225 CHAPTER XIII. Richard Mead 239 CHAPTER XIV. Imagination as a Remedial Power 255 CHAPTER XV. Imagination and Nervous Excitement--Mesmer 280 CHAPTER XVI. Make way for the Ladies! 287 CHAPTER XVII. Messenger Monsey 311 CHAPTER XVIII. Akenside 327 CHAPTER XIX. Lettsom 335 CHAPTER XX. A few More Quacks 345 CHAPTER XXI. St. John Long 356 CHAPTER XXII. The Quarrels of Physicians 374 CHAPTER XXIII. The Loves of Physicians 393 CHAPTER XXIV. Literature and Art 421 CHAPTER XXV. Number Eleven--a Hospital Story 442