The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
History
The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
Literature and medicine; Physicians; Physicians in literature
Frost, Thomas, Dickens' Doctors, 90-101.
Mountebanks and Medicine, 140-152.
The Strange Fight with the Small-pox, 153-166.
Burkers and Body-Snatchers, 167-180.
Reminiscences of the Cholera, 181-191
Galen, 120
Gallows, superstitions respecting, 249
Gild, Barbers', 2
Gold-headed Cane, 32-41
Grave-mould, 45
Greatrake, Valentine, 82
Great Plague of London, 136-139
Hall, Dr., 88-89
Harvey, Wm., 194-196
Heart of Bruce, 210
Hentzner in England, 28
Hill, Sir John, 114
Hodges, Dr., 137
Holbein, Picture by, 3
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 106-108
How our Fathers were Physicked, 216-233
Hunter, John, 198
Hunter, William, 199
Hunterian Museum, 205
Jaundice, 251
Jenner, 159-162
Johnston, Arthur, 122-123
Johnson, Dr., touched for the evil, 18-19
Kerr, Dr., 275
Langford, J. A., LL.D., How our Fathers were Physicked, 216
Latimer on Mercenary Physicians, 260
Lee Penny, 209-215
Lettsom, J. C., 35, 263
Liver, eating human, 51
Lockhart, Sir Simon, 211-213
Lotteries, 151
Lover, Samuel, 282
Macbeth, quoted, 9
Mashonaland, Credulity in, 63-65
Magic and Medicine, 42-69
Manchester in plague time, 135-136
Mead, Dr., 265
Medical Folk Lore, 234-251
Medical Students, 97-98
Merry Andrew, 141-151
Mercenary Physicians, 260
Metals and precious stones used, 218
Mountebanks and Medicine, 140-152
Mouse, roasted, prescribed, 221
Moir, D. M., 116-118
Montagu, Lady May, 153-154, 162
Monks as surgeons, 1;
forbidden to bleed, 2
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Siege of, 213
Nicholson, John, Medical Folk-Lore, 234-251
North American Indian medicine men, 52-56
O'Brien, Giant, 202
Of Physicians and their Fees, 252-283
Parliament, Folly of, 223
Phillips, John, 111
Pilgrim's Staff, 32
Planetary Influence, 250
Plantagenent kings touching for the evil, 10
Pontefract Castle, 27
Pole, Barber's, 6
Preston records, 17
Radcliffe's cane, 33
Rain-water doctor, 261
Reminiscences of the Cholera, 181-191
Revolting prescriptions, 225
Richardson, Sir B. W., 202, 204
Rings from hinges of coffins, 249
Robinson, Tom, M.D., The Gold-headed Cane, 32-41
Rochester, Earl of, 144
Rheumatism, 238
Sacrificing for disease, 47-49
Skull, Human, Medical uses, 227
Small-pox, Old receipt for, 72
Smith, Sydney, Witty remark, 261
Some Old Doctors, 192-208
St. Agnes' Eve, 241
Stark, Dr., 280-281
Statute of Labourers, 124-125
Strange Stories, 262
Strange Story of the Fight with the Small Pox, 153-166
Stuart kings touching for the evil, 12-14
Suicide's skull, Drinking from, 50
Symington, A. J., Of Physicians and their Fees, 252-283
Tooth-drawing, 5
Thompson, W. H., Chaucer's Doctor of Physic, 70-75
Thurlow, Lord, on Barbers and Surgeons, 6
Thompson, Sir Henry, 115
Tobacco, Poet's Praise of, 111
Tournament, 186
Toothache, Folk-lore of, 235-237, 249
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