William Andrews gathers lively essays on the curious history of the medical profession: barber-surgeons, touching for the King’s Evil, the doctor’s visiting habits, the old office of assaying the king’s meat and drink, the famous gold-headed cane passed between physicians, magic and medicine, and the extravagant patter of quacks and mountebanks.
An entertaining Victorian miscellany for anyone who enjoys the odd byways of medical history. Download the free EPUB.