Next to religion, nothing is more precious or comforting than the sympathy of those who know and fully understand our sufferings, for, as my old favourite, Sir Thomas Browne, to whom I ever revert with renewed pleasure, truly and beautifully says:--"It is not the tears of our own eyes only, but of our friends also, that do exhaust the current of our sorrows, which, falling into many streams, runs more peaceably, and is contented with a narrower channel." Ye Ende Index. Abernethy, John, 206-208, 266 Advertisements, Curious, 155-159 Ague, Charms for, 240-241 Akenside, Mark, 109-111 Andrews, William, Barber-Surgeons, 1-7; Touching for King's Evil, 8-23; Assaying Meat and Drink, 24-31 Anne, Queen, 18-19 Assay Cups, 30-31 Assaying Meat and Drink, 24-31 Atkins, Dr. H., 264 Axon, W. E. A., The Doctor in the time of Pestilence, 125-139 Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus, Some Old Doctors, 192-208 Barber-Surgeons, 1-7 Barber's Pole, 6, 35 Bicycle, 23 Birmingham town's book, 15 Bisley, 15 Bishop, hanged, 167 Bishop and Williams, body-snatchers, 171-177 Blackmore, R. D., 118 Blackmore, Dr., 111-113 Black Art, 45 Bleeding, 7, 216 Blood, Circulation of the, 195 Blood in windows, 2 Boke of Jhon Caius, 127 Booker, Rev. Dr., on small-pox, 163-164 Bossy, a quack, 149 Brown, Dr. John, 115 Brown, Sir Thomas, 123, 124, 253-258, 278, 283 Bruce, King Robert the, 209 Buddhism, 67-68 Bulleyn, Dr., quoted, 219 Burke and Hare, 168 Burkers and Body-Snatchers, 167-180 Burning for disease, 46 Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," 259-260 Byron quoted, 187 Campbell, Dr., 276, 278 Cancer, Curious treatment for, 222 Carriages, 22-23 Celestials and medicine, 58-61 Chalmers, John, M.D., 115 Charms, 43-44, 52 Chaucer's Doctor of Physic, 70-75 Chester in plague time, 133-135; Touching at, 17 Cholera, Reminiscences of, 181-191 Circulation of the blood, 195 Colic, Charm for, 248 Cooper, Sir Astley, 170, 179, 268 Coryat, 141 Cramp, Charm, 52; Strange cure for, 249 Croydon, Cholera at, 185-186, 190 Crusade, 209 Cumming, Dr. W. F., 114-115 Cupping, 217 Curious prescriptions, 226 Dickens, Charles, Satires by, 65-66 Dickens' Doctors, 90-101 Dimsdale, Dr., 264 Disinfectants in sticks, 33 Disputes between surgeons and barbers, 5 Doctor in the time of Pestilence, 125-139 Doctors Shakespeare Knew, 76-89 Dog bites, 242 Douglas, Sir James, 209 Doyle, Dr. Conan, 118 "Drunk by George," 270 Ecclesfield, 16 Edward the Confessor, 8-9 Egyptians and Magic, 57-58 Elizabeth, Queen, at dinner, 28-29 Erysipelas, 243 Eskimo Medicine Men, 61-63 Faith Cures, 42 Famous Literary Doctors, 102-124 Fees, London, 273-274 Food taken in fear, 24 Freind, John, 196