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Various. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc
The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc
Table of Contents
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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Published by Good Press, 2021
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“1683 Decr. Pd. for his Majestie’s order for touching 00.00.06.”
A page in the register book of Bisley, Surrey, is headed thus, “Certificates for the Evill commonly called the kings Evill.” Two entries occur as follow:—
