. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. t hesubjected himself to a charge of treason, and was either inprison, or forced to conceal himself for a considerable Mead generously supplied his place among his patients,and when his Jacobite tendencies were forgiven, presented himwith a purse containing 11,400 guineas, which, said he, I havereceived as your deputy. Visits to Patients. Previous to the reign of Charles II., physicians were in thehabit of visiting their patients on horseback, sitting alwayson foot-cloths like women. Simeon Fox and
. Doctors and patients; or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of medicine. t hesubjected himself to a charge of treason, and was either inprison, or forced to conceal himself for a considerable Mead generously supplied his place among his patients,and when his Jacobite tendencies were forgiven, presented himwith a purse containing 11,400 guineas, which, said he, I havereceived as your deputy. Visits to Patients. Previous to the reign of Charles II., physicians were in thehabit of visiting their patients on horseback, sitting alwayson foot-cloths like women. Simeon Fox and Dr. Argentwere the last Presidents of the College of Physicians to gotheir rounds in this undignified manner. With the Restora-tion came the carriage of the London physicians. The LexTalionis says :— For there must now be a little coach andtwo horses; and being thus attended, half-a-piece, theirusual fee, is but ill-taken, and popped into their left pocket,and possibly may cause the patient to send for his worshiptwice before he will come again to the hazard of anotherangel. / //. Guys Hospital. 97 Though physicians began generally to take to carriages in thereign of Charles II., it must not be supposed that no doctor ofmedicine before that time experienced the motion of a wheeledcarriage. In Stovvs London we read :— In the year 1563 Dr. Langton, a physician, rid in a car, witha gown of damask lined with velvet, and a coat of velvet, and acap of the same (such, as it seems, doctors then wore), buthaving a blue hood pinned over his cap; which was (as itseems) a customary mark of guilt. And so came throughCheapside on a market-day. Guys Hospital. Guys Hospital, Southwark, on the south side of St. ThomassStreet, was built by Dance, the City architect, in 1722-4, atthe sole expense of Thomas Guy, the bookseller in LombardStreet, who by printing and selling Bibles made a fortune : thishe greatly increased by purchasing seamens tickets at a largediscount, and afterwards investin
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