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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
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timme,—Addenbrooke, the founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital
in Cambridge,—Arbuthnot, the beloved of Pope and Swift,—
Mead, whose museum and magnificient hospitality in Ormond
Street were important features of London life in the earlier
half of the eighteenth century,—Bishop Atterburys Jacobite
physician, Freind, the author of ' The History of Physick, fromt
he Time of Galen to the Beginnning of the Sixteenth Century,'
whose tomb may be found in Westminster Abbey,—Sir Edward
Hulse, the lover of fees,—Jurin, the mathematician,—Stukely,
the antiquary, whose proficiency in Druidical history earned
for 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 a
buccaneer, and ended it as a London physician,—Messenger
Monsey, the benevolent misanthrope and valued friend of Sir
Robert 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 the
young 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 to
return 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, the
favourite 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 of
the Regency till his death in Dover Street, on June 22, 1797,

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