. Annals of medical history. d the in-formation that both works are the produc-tions of Dr. Gideon Harvey. By 1685 Little Venus had reached thefifth edition. To make matters worse, notcontent with writing and publishing thisbook at the price of a shilling, the authorprefixed his portrait of which we subjoina copy. After liehaviour of this kind it is nowonder that the college refused to haveanything to do with him. There is an episode in the life of the Earlof Rochester which seems interesting in thisconnection. As is well known, Rochesterduring one of his inlorced absences fromcourt nias(iuera
. Annals of medical history. d the in-formation that both works are the produc-tions of Dr. Gideon Harvey. By 1685 Little Venus had reached thefifth edition. To make matters worse, notcontent with writing and publishing thisbook at the price of a shilling, the authorprefixed his portrait of which we subjoina copy. After liehaviour of this kind it is nowonder that the college refused to haveanything to do with him. There is an episode in the life of the Earlof Rochester which seems interesting in thisconnection. As is well known, Rochesterduring one of his inlorced absences fromcourt nias(iueradecl in town as a (|uack Morljus Anglicus. Uiulatid. See p. 213. doctor, and frightened the lives out of themaids of honour and their waiting womenby his predictions. The pox, of course,played a prominent part in his harangues,and after a perusal of Gideon Harveyssmall monographs it struck me that theycontained exactly the kind of informationwhich would be useful to anybody masquer-ading as Rochester was. Vivid descriptions,. Dr. Gideon Harvey. (Frontispiece to Little Venus) anecdotes, and above all numerous refer-ences to learned writers, with marginalnotes giving the names and the titles oftheir works, seem to supply an ideal readymade stock-in-trade for a quack is not surprising that books on venerealdisease should have been popular at thistime; it formed quite a feature in thedrama—as witness some of Wycherleysplays—and its signs and symptoms weredoubtless of more than theoretical niterestto many \\hose naints aie recorded m the(.ramnioiit memoirs and other writings ofthe time. In publishing two popular littlebooks on the subject, we have no doubt that Gideon Harvey: Sidelights on Medical Life 213 Harvey was feathering his nest financially,however much he may have been damninghimself professionally. The two books entitled Morbus Angli-eus do not present any specially interestingfeatures. It may, however, be menti<inedthat they are two distinct books with th
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