Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.Anonymous
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Clergymen and Doctors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.
Anonymous
Clergy; Medicine -- Anecdotes; Medicine -- Humor; Pastoral theology -- Anecdotes; Physicians
Fees, Ancient, of Magnitude, 89;
Early English, 89;
in the Reign of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, 90;
After the Revolution, 91;
Large Royal, in Later Times, 92;
For a Political Consultation, 94;
Generous Refusal of, 95;
Sticklers for, 95;
Collectively Irresistible, 96
Flavel's "Day of Heaven", 24
Footscrapers Reproved, The, 17
Garrick's Precepts for Preachers, 147
George II. as an Amateur Surgeon, 148
Gibbon's Retort on the Physician, 51
Gilpin and the Northumbrian Brawlers, 19
Gospel, The, A Novelty, 34
Gregory, Dr., Generosity of, 73
Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood, 35
Herrnhuters, the, Extravagances of, 78
Hill, The Rev. Rowland, 157
Hour-Glasses in Church, 49
How to be Kept in Health, 64
Hunter (William) and Cullen, The Partnership of, 14
Hunter, John, the Anatomist, 139; Routing the Rout, 65
Iconoclastic Zeal in the North, 137
Indian Commerce, Origin of our, 122
Intercessor for Himself, An, 71
Interpolation, A Significant, 27
Jebb, Sir Richard, 40
Jenner, the Discoverer of Vaccination, 107
Kennet, Bishop, on Late Repentance, 42
Kirwan, Dr., Dean of Killala, 55
Knox, John, Fearlessness of, 105
Leighton, Archbishop, on Time and Eternity, 159
Lettsom's Liberation of his Slaves, 112
Licenced Lay Preaching, 62
"Make the Most of Him", 158
Mal-apropos Quotation, A, 43
Masses Transferred, 21
Massillon, Eloquence of, 12
Mathews on his Deathbed, 32
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, 92
Medicine, A Royal, 25
Methodist Dog, The, 50
Mild Criticism, A, 48
Monsey, Messenger, his Dying Jests, 132
Nash's (Beau) Treatment of a Prescription, 128
Pacific She, A, 158
Paley's Career, Turning Point in, 81;
Economy of Conscience, 97
Perkins' "Tractors" Exposed, 113
Perversion of Scripture, A Clever, 136
Peter the Great as Dentist, 47
Physicians and their Fees, 86; and Clergymen, 159
Playing-Cards, Puritan Re-Christening of, 139
Pope's Last Epigram, 68
Prayer, A Loyal and Fata, 124
Preacher, A Popular, 16; A Witty French, 130
Preaching for a Crown, 54
Preaching to Purpose, Latimer's, 124
Preparing for the Worst and Best, 143
Prescription in Disguise, A, 18;
Prescription for Long Life, A, 61
Promotion, The Way to, 145
Pulteney's Cure by Small Beer, 128
Radcliffe's Enmity to Hannes, 30
Radcliffe and Kneller, 58
Revival of "Prophesying," Lord Bacon on the, 141
Revolution, The French, and the Bible, 107
Rude Truth for a Queen, 75
Saint's Bell, The, 39
Seaman Bishop, The, 27
Sermon Reading, Charles II. on, 44
Servant and Master, 126
Shedding his Blood for his Country, 54
Slaps for Sleepers in Church, 59
Sloane, Sir Hans, 154
Smith, Sydney, Bon-Mots of, 121
Sterne, A Home Thrust at, 34
Stillingfleet, Charles II. and Bishop, 123
Sunday Sports, James I. on, 37
Swift's (Dean) Contributory Dinner, 102
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