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A Book About Doctors

by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Something About Sticks, and Rather Less About Wigs
  3. 3Chapter II — Early English Physicians
  4. 4Chapter III — Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby
  5. 5Chapter IV — Sir Hans Sloane
  6. 6Chapter V — The Apothecaries and Sir Samuel Garth
  7. 7Chapter VI — Quacks
  8. 8Chapter VII — John Radcliffe
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Doctor as a Bon-Vivant
  10. 10Chapter IX — Fees
  11. 11Chapter X — Pedagogues Turned Doctors
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Generosity and the Parsimony of Physicians
  13. 13Chapter XII — Bleeding
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Richard Mead
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Imagination as a Remedial Power
  16. 16Chapter XV — Imagination and Nervous Excitement. Mesmer
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Make Way for the Ladies!
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Messenger Monsey
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Akenside
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Lettsom
  21. 21Chapter XX — A Few More Quacks
  22. 22Chapter XXI — St. John Long
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Quarrels of Physicians
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — The Loves of Physicians
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Literature and Art
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Number Eleven — A Hospital Story
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Medical Buildings
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Country Medical Man

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