The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.
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THE DOCTOR.
Preface.
Barber-Surgeons.
Touching for the King’s Evil.
Visiting Patients.
Assaying Meat and Drink.
The Gold-headed Cane.
Magic and Medicine.
Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic.
The Doctors Shakespeare Knew.
Dickens’ Doctors.
Famous Literary Doctors.
The “Doctor” in time of Pestilence.
Mountebanks and Medicine.
The Strange Story of the Fight with the Small-Pox.
Burkers and Body-Snatchers.
Reminiscences of the Cholera.
Some Old Doctors.
The Lee Penny.
How Our Fathers were Physicked.
Medical Folk-Lore.
Of Physicians and their Fees,
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