Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine (1873) (14784762212)

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Title: Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Timbs, John,1801-1875
Subjects: Medicine Medicine
Publisher: London, R. Bentley and son
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library



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me,—Addenbrooke, the founder of Addenbrookes Hospitalin Cambridge,—Arbuthnot, the beloved of Pope and Swift,—Mead, whose museum and magnificient hospitality in OrmondStreet were important features of London life in the earlierhalf of the eighteenth century,—Bishop Atterburys Jacobitephysician, Freind, the author of The History of Physick, fromthe Time of Galen to the Beginnning of the Sixteenth Century,whose tomb may be found in Westminster Abbey,—Sir EdwardHulse, the lover of fees,—Jurin, the mathematician,—Stukely,the antiquary, whose proficiency in Druidical history earnedfor him amongst his friends the name of the Archdruid,—Dover, the inventor of the combination of opium and ipeca-cuanha known as Dovers* Powder, who began life as abuccaneer, and ended it as a London physician,—MessengerMonsey, the benevolent misanthrope and valued friend of SirRobert Walpole,—Dr. Meyer Lowe Schomberg, the unscrupu-lous practitioner who raised himself to notoriety and lucrative
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Celebiated Physicians, 93 practice by entertaining at a great dinner once a week all theyoung surgeons of London,—Isaac Schomberg, son of the fore-going, memorable for his contest with the College of Physicians,— Dr. William Chambers, of Hull, whose custom it was toreturn to his patients a part of whatever fees they gave him,—Sir William Browne, the eccentric,—the not less eccentric Dr.Batty, lashed by Moses Mendez, Paul Whitehead, and Dr.Schomberg, in The Battiad,—the gentle Quaker, Fothergill,indebted to his connection with The Friends for his profes-sional income of 7,000/. a year, and his noble garden at Upton,near Stratford, in Essex,—the venerable Heberden,—Akenside,the poet,—Brocklesby, the friend of Dr. Johnson and the bene-factor of Burke,— Dr. William Hunter,—Dr. Addington, thefavourite physician of George III., and father of Lord Sid-mouth,— well-dressed Henry Revell Reynolds, the last of the silk-coated physicians,—Dr. Warren, who from the time ofth