Part 15

Curious prescriptions, 226

Dickens, Charles, Satires by, 65-66

Dickens' Doctors, 90-101

Dimsdale, Dr., 264

Disinfectants in sticks, 33

Disputes between surgeons and barbers, 5

Doctor in the time of Pestilence, 125-139

Doctors Shakespeare Knew, 76-89

Dog bites, 242

Douglas, Sir James, 209

Doyle, Dr. Conan, 118

"Drunk by George," 270

Ecclesfield, 16

Edward the Confessor, 8-9

Egyptians and Magic, 57-58

Elizabeth, Queen, at dinner, 28-29

Erysipelas, 243

Eskimo Medicine Men, 61-63

Faith Cures, 42

Famous Literary Doctors, 102-124

Fees, London, 273-274

Food taken in fear, 24

Freind, John, 196

Frost, Thomas, Dickens' Doctors, 90-101. Mountebanks and Medicine, 140-152. The Strange Fight with the Small-pox, 153-166. Burkers and Body-Snatchers, 167-180. Reminiscences of the Cholera, 181-191

Galen, 120

Gallows, superstitions respecting, 249

Gild, Barbers', 2

Gold-headed Cane, 32-41

Grave-mould, 45

Greatrake, Valentine, 82

Great Plague of London, 136-139

Hall, Dr., 88-89

Harvey, Wm., 194-196

Heart of Bruce, 210

Hentzner in England, 28

Hill, Sir John, 114

Hodges, Dr., 137

Holbein, Picture by, 3

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 106-108

How our Fathers were Physicked, 216-233

Hunter, John, 198

Hunter, William, 199

Hunterian Museum, 205

Jaundice, 251

Jenner, 159-162

Johnston, Arthur, 122-123

Johnson, Dr., touched for the evil, 18-19

Kerr, Dr., 275

Langford, J. A., LL.D., How our Fathers were Physicked, 216

Latimer on Mercenary Physicians, 260

Lee Penny, 209-215

Lettsom, J. C., 35, 263

Liver, eating human, 51

Lockhart, Sir Simon, 211-213

Lotteries, 151

Lover, Samuel, 282

Macbeth, quoted, 9

Mashonaland, Credulity in, 63-65

Magic and Medicine, 42-69

Manchester in plague time, 135-136

Mead, Dr., 265

Medical Folk Lore, 234-251

Medical Students, 97-98

Merry Andrew, 141-151

Mercenary Physicians, 260

Metals and precious stones used, 218

Mountebanks and Medicine, 140-152

Mouse, roasted, prescribed, 221

Moir, D. M., 116-118

Montagu, Lady May, 153-154, 162

Monks as surgeons, 1; forbidden to bleed, 2

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Siege of, 213

Nicholson, John, Medical Folk-Lore, 234-251

North American Indian medicine men, 52-56

O'Brien, Giant, 202

Of Physicians and their Fees, 252-283

Parliament, Folly of, 223

Phillips, John, 111

Pilgrim's Staff, 32

Planetary Influence, 250

Plantagenent kings touching for the evil, 10

Pontefract Castle, 27

Pole, Barber's, 6

Preston records, 17

Radcliffe's cane, 33

Rain-water doctor, 261

Reminiscences of the Cholera, 181-191

Revolting prescriptions, 225

Richardson, Sir B. W., 202, 204

Rings from hinges of coffins, 249

Robinson, Tom, M.D., The Gold-headed Cane, 32-41

Rochester, Earl of, 144

Rheumatism, 238

Sacrificing for disease, 47-49

Skull, Human, Medical uses, 227

Small-pox, Old receipt for, 72

Smith, Sydney, Witty remark, 261

Some Old Doctors, 192-208

St. Agnes' Eve, 241

Stark, Dr., 280-281

Statute of Labourers, 124-125

Strange Stories, 262

Strange Story of the Fight with the Small Pox, 153-166

Stuart kings touching for the evil, 12-14

Suicide's skull, Drinking from, 50

Symington, A. J., Of Physicians and their Fees, 252-283

Tooth-drawing, 5

Thompson, W. H., Chaucer's Doctor of Physic, 70-75

Thurlow, Lord, on Barbers and Surgeons, 6

Thompson, Sir Henry, 115

Tobacco, Poet's Praise of, 111

Tournament, 186

Toothache, Folk-lore of, 235-237, 249

Toad, 227

Touching for the King's Evil, 8-23

Touch-pieces, 11, 20-21

Terling, Essex, 15

Tudor Kings touching for the Evil, 11

Verney Family, 229-233

Visiting Patients, 22-23

Wall, A. H., Doctors Shakespeare Knew, 76-89

Walters, Cuming, Magic and Medicine, 42-69; Famous Literary Doctors, 102-124

Warren, Samuel, 116

Warts, Charms for, 247

Whooping cough, 244-246

Wig, 35

William III. refuses to touch, 18

Winchester, Mountebank at, 147-148

Witchcraft, 49-50, 242

York records, 16-17

Zulu doctors, 65

FOOTNOTES:

[1] "Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Periods," by Rupert H. Morris, 1894, pp. 78-79.

[2] The _Asclepiad_, Vol. viii.

[3] Act ii., sc. 2.

[4] Dyer's English Folk Lore, p. 156.

[5] Dyer's English Folk Lore, p. 158.

[6] _Records of York Castle_, p. 230.

[7] Folk Lore Journal, v. 5.

[8] Vol. i., p. 761.

[9] P. 353.

[10] P. 273.

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