INDEX.
Reading edition
A
Amen Corner, The College of Physicians in, 117
Anatomy, 87
Anne, Queen, 27-48;
her illness, 48;
and death, 35;
Radcliffe blamed by the public, 36
Antimony, its use and disuse in medicine, 99
Arcanum Goddardianum, 203
Aristophanes, Hamey’s notes and criticisms on, 101
Ascites, tapping in, 70
Aselli, 92
Askew, Dr., 149;
a great traveller, 150;
a great book collector, 151;
makes bibliomania fashionable, 155
B
Baillie, Dr. Matthew, 225;
his appearance and manner, 229;
treatise on morbid anatomy, 226;
his practice, 230
Baker, Sir George, his profound attainments, 115;
his Latin pleasantries, 217, 218
Banks, Sir Joseph, P.R.S., 227
Baronet, the first medical, 54
Bibliotheca Askeviana, 157
Bidloo, Dr., 8-22
Boerhaave, 240
British Museum, 193
Burnet, Bishop, his last illness, 52;
attended by Sir Hans Sloane, Cheyne, and Mead, 52
C
Caius, Dr., 86
Caldwall, Dr., and Lord Lumley found lectures at the College of Physicians, 89
Cane, The Gold-Headed, its origin, 4, 184;
its description, xix;
in seclusion, 253
Charles I, Halford’s connection with, xiii
Charles II, at the Royal Society, 203;
an experimenter, 204;
bled by Sir Edmund King, 189
Cheyne, Dr., his enormous weight, 54;
attends his relation, Bishop Burnet, in his last illness, 55
Cheselden, the surgeon, 134 (note)
Cinchona bark, 97
College of Physicians, opening of the, 2;
sites of, in Knight Rider Street, 114;
in Amen Corner, 117;
in Warwick Lane, 131;
under presidency of Sir Henry Halford, xvi
Consultations, medical, 56
Cullen, Dr., 177
Cumberland, the Duke of, takes the electric shock at the point of the sword with which he fought the battle of Culloden, 145
D
Diet, importance of, 233
Dorchester, the Marquis of, a Fellow of the College of Physicians, 103
E
Edwards, George, the naturalist, his book on birds, 186;
his visits to Sir Hans Sloane at Chelsea, 190
Ent, Sir George, his interview with Harvey, 111;
obtains the MS., “Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium,” 112;
is Knighted by Charles II. in the College of Physicians, 125
Esculapius, the mourning, 30
Eugene, the Prince, 30
F
Fees, medical, 38
Fire of London, 127
Fox, Dr., his death-bed and farewell to Hamey, 106
Freind, Dr., committed to the Tower, 72;
visited there by Mead, 73;
liberated through Mead’s intervention, 75;
at Mead’s house, 78
G
Garth, Sir Samuel, 104
George, Prince of Denmark, 27
Glisson, Dr., 90
Goddard, Dr., 201
Greaves, Sir Edward, the first medical baronet, 54
H
Halford, Sir Henry, his life and career, xii-xiv
Haller, 241
Hamey, Dr. Baldwin, 101;
liberality to the College of Physicians, inscription to, 124
Harvey, William, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, 92;
Sir George Ent’s interview with him, 111;
“Generation of Animals,” 112;
his “Museum” at the College in Amen Corner, 118;
his preparations of vessels and nerves on tablets of wood, 121;
record of his death, 124;
bust, by Scheemaker, 109;
inscription, 187
Heberden, Dr., the elder, 160, 165;
his literary tastes and associates, 167;
his liberality, 168;
his address and high principles, 171
Hulse, Sir Edward, 162
Hunter, Dr. William, viii, 225
I
Inoculation of small-pox, 65
Isiaca, the Tabula or Mensa, 34
J
Jenner, announces vaccination discovery, 242
K
Kensington Palace in 1689, 6
King, Sir Edmund, 189
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 15 (note)
Knight Rider Street, College of Physicians in, 114
L
Library of College of Physicians, 185
Linacre, the first President of the College, 81;
his portrait, 7
Lower, Dr., on transfusion of blood, 93
Luke, St., the Evangelist, a physician, his Greek more classical than that of the other evangelists, 74
Lumley, Lord, and Dr. Caldwall, found lectures at the College of Physicians, 89
Lymphatics, their discovery, 92
M
Macmichael, William, life of, xi, xii;
appointed Physician to the King, xiv;
works of, xv;
death of, xvi
Mary, Queen of William III., 9
Materia Medica, additions to, 96
Mayow, Dr., his theory of respiration, 92
Mead, Dr., an accomplished and liberal scholar, vii, 32;
on plague and quarantine, 62;
inoculation of small-pox, 65;
tapping in dropsy, 70;
his politics, 71;
his library and collections, 79;
his liberality to scholars, 143;
great hospitality, 145;
his professional income, 146;
“Monita et Praecepta Medica,” 147;
bust of, by Roubiliac, 152
Middleton, Dr. Conyers, 81
Mithridatium, 160
Munk, Dr., on Sir Henry Halford, xiv;
on physicians’ canes, xix
Museum of Harvey, opening of, 120
N
Newton, Sir Isaac, last illness of, 134
Nias, Dr., v
Nicholls, Dr. Frank, 123 (note)
P
Page, Dame Mary, extraordinary case of, 70
Pecquet, discovery of the thoracic duct, 92
Philosophical Transactions, 201
Pitcairn, Dr. Archibald, founder of mechanical sect of medicine, 174
” Dr. David, 174-218;
illness and death of, 222
” Dr. William, 174;
the leading physician in the city, 195
Plague, the contagiousness of, 62, 127
Polish dinner, a, 206
Poniatowsky, Prince, 204
Pringle, Sir John, President of the Royal Society, 140;
his addresses on delivery of the Copley medal, 142
Q
Quarantine, Dr. Mead on, 63
Quinin, discovery of, 97
R
Radcliffe, Dr., his medical skill, 17;
his coarseness and plainness, 8, 18;
his prognosis, 19;
in love, 30;
his matrimonial intentions marred, 14;
blamed for death of Queen Anne, 36;
his history, 37;
his fees and income, 39;
his bequests, 40 (note), vi;
his death, 50
Radcliffe Infirmary, v
Ronjat, Mons., le premier chirurgien du Roi, 23, 24
Roubiliac, his bust of Mead, and extortionate demand, 153
Royal Society, its early history, 140, 199;
the qualifications for President of, 139;
Philosophical Transactions, 201
S
Selden, John, 123
Shaw, Dr. Peter, 183
Sloane, Sir Hans, 54, et seq.;
in the West Indies, 59;
President of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society, 62, 140;
in his retirement at Chelsea, 191;
his botanical gardens at Chelsea, 192;
the British Museum, 193
Small-pox, 242;
inoculation of, 65;
Dr. Mead’s advocacy of, 67
Stahl, metaphysical theory of, 240
Sydenham, 235;
his merits, 237;
on quinin, 98
T
Talbor, Sir Richard, on quinin in fever, 98, 99
Tabula, Isiaca, 34
V
Vaccination, discovery by Jenner, 242
Vanbutchel, Mrs., the mummy of, 218
Vaughan, Henry, see Sir Henry Halford, xii, et seq.
W
Warren, Dr. Richard, 175;
his Harveian oration, 184;
his character and eminent qualifications as a physician, 196
Warwick Lane, the College of Physicians in, 131, 185
Watson, Sir Thomas, on Dr. Macmichael, xvi
” Sir William, his experiments in electricity, 145
William III., 8, 12, 21;
character of, 24
Willis, Dr. Thomas, his merits as an anatomist, 95
Wilmot, Sir Edward, 182