CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
LONDON FROM THE SANITARY POINT OF VIEW.
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Situation 7
Water Supply 10
Mediæval London 16
Gardens and Pleasure Grounds 18
Health of Old London 24
The London “Death Rate” 31
Improved Condition of Modern London 34
What is the Outlook? 36
Annual Death-Rate per 100,000 Living of Children under 5 Years of Age from Whooping-cough and Measles during the 10 Years 1871–80 41
The Loose End of our Sanitation 44
CHAPTER II.
LONDON FROM THE MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.
Chaucer’s Doctor 50
Earliest London Practitioners 53
The Severance of Medicine and Surgery 56
The Earliest Medical Act 59
The College of Physicians 60
The Plague 72
Secret Remedies 86
The Crusade against Quackery 89
Medicine in the Days of Pepys 92
The Barber-Surgeons 95
The First Anatomy Lectures 97
The Apothecaries 101
The Royal Society 101
Gresham College 103
The Earliest Hospitals 106
The Royal Hospitals 110
Early Hospital Practice 112
The Pharmacopœias 117
The Rise of the Medical Schools 119
Hospitals Built by Public Benevolence 120
Modern Medical Schools and Examinations 123
London as a Place of Study 127