The gold-headed cane . SECOND EDITION. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXVIIT. TO THE HONOURABLE LADY HALFORD,THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATEDWITH SENTIMENTS OF THE GREATEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM^ BYHEE LADYSHIPS MOST FAITHFUL SERVANT, THE EDITOR. NOTICE BY THE EDITOR. A short time before the opening of the NewCollege of Physicians, Mrs. Baillie presentedto that learned body a Gold-Headed Cane,which had been successively carried by , Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, and herown lamented husband. The arms of these celebrated Physicians areengraved on the head of the Cane, and theyform the Vig
The gold-headed cane . SECOND EDITION. LONDON:JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXVIIT. TO THE HONOURABLE LADY HALFORD,THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATEDWITH SENTIMENTS OF THE GREATEST RESPECT AND ESTEEM^ BYHEE LADYSHIPS MOST FAITHFUL SERVANT, THE EDITOR. NOTICE BY THE EDITOR. A short time before the opening of the NewCollege of Physicians, Mrs. Baillie presentedto that learned body a Gold-Headed Cane,which had been successively carried by , Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, and herown lamented husband. The arms of these celebrated Physicians areengraved on the head of the Cane, and theyform the Vignettes of the five Chapters intowhich this little Volume is divided. CONTENTS PAGECHAP. I. RADCLIFFE 1 CHAP. II. MEAD . . . .51 CHAP. III. ASKEW 149 CHAP. IV. PITCAIRN 174 CHAP. Y. BAILLIE 225. RADCLIFFE. CHAPTER I. When I was deposited in a corner closetof the Library, on the 24th of June, 1825, theday before the opening of the New Collegeof Physicians, with the observation that I wasno longer to be carried about, but to be keptamongst the reliques of that learned body, itwas impossible to avoid secretly lamenting theobscurity which was henceforth to be my the entree of palaces had been opento me; I had been freely admitted into the 2 RADCLIFFE. houses of the great and the rich; but now Iwas doomed to darkness, and condemned tooccupy the corner of a library—spacious andsplendid, it must be allowed, but where I wassurrounded by nothing but the musty manu-scripts of defunct doctors. The gloom, how-ever, of my present abode was enlivened onthe following day by my overhearing the ele-gant oration of the President of the College;and an occasional glance I had of scarletdresses recalled the decorum and propriety ofthe days of yore, when, on all solemn occasionsof p
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