The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc.

There is a much more effective, though a somewhat revolting prescription for "those with abilitie." "Take," says our seventeenth century physician, "take a sound horse, open his...

What is more distressing, both to patient and nurse, than whooping cough, or king-cough, as it is sometimes called? A change of air is deemed beneficial to the afflicted one, so...

Of the great epidemics which have from time to time devastated Europe, Great Britain has had its full share. Between 664 and 1665 there were many visitations, resulting in heavy...

In an Act of Parliament which was passed in the year 1511, we read, in its preamble, that "the science and cunning of Physic and Surgery" was exercised by "a great multitude of...

Dr. Glynn once attended the only son of a poor peasant woman, ministering to his wants with port wine, bark, and delicacies. After the lad's recovery, his mother waited on the d...

The medicine-men of the Eskimos were called angekoks, and enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the people. They were said to have equal power over heaven and earth, this world an...

It would be impossible in the compass of a short article to deal systematically and comprehensively with doctors who became authors, or to make out a complete list of their name...

I have a vivid recollection of the mingled awe and terror which this fell disease inspired when it was announced that it had crossed the sea and made its first victims in this c...

In the preceding pages we have referred to "touch pieces," and it will not be without interest to direct attention to some of the more notable examples. A small sum of money was...

In the following pages I have attempted to bring together from the pens of several authors who have written expressly for this book, the more interesting phases of the history,...

Setting out originally from the tablet in Westminster Abbey to describe what manner of man was the old doctor who lay beneath, it became imperatively necessary to bracket the tw...

In the following year, vaccine inoculation began to spread, the practice being taken up by many of Jenner's friends, including several who were not in the medical profession. Bu...

There has generally been sufficient superstition in all races to make amulets the popular means of averting calamity and preserving from sickness. The Greeks, the Romans, the Je...

It is suggested by Mr. John Noake, however, that these mountebanks were riders or posturers, and that the amount was the charge made for the permission accorded them to perform...