The Gold-Headed Cane

INDEX.

• 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