The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-lore, Etc. [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
Barber-Surgeons. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S.
Touching for the King’s Evil. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S.
Visiting Patients
Assaying Meat and Drink. By William Andrews, F.R.H.S.
The Gold-headed Cane. By Tom Robinson, M.D.
Magic and Medicine. By Cuming Walters
Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic. By W. H. Thompson
The Doctors Shakespeare Knew. By A. H. Wall
Dickens’ Doctors. By Thomas Frost
Famous Literary Doctors. By Cuming Walters
The “Doctor” in Time of Pestilence. By William E. A. Axon, F.R.S.L.
Mountebanks and Medicine. By Thomas Frost
The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox. By Thomas Frost
Burkers and Body-Snatchers. By Thomas Frost
Reminiscences of the Cholera. By Thomas Frost
Some Old Doctors. By Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks
The Lee Penny
How Our Fathers were Physicked. By J. A. Langford, LL.D.
Medical Folk-Lore. By John Nicholson
Of Physicians and their Fees, with some Personal Reminiscences.
By Andrew James Symington, F.R.S.N.A.
Index