A Book About Doctors

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A Book About Doctors, by John Cordy Jeaffreson, has chapters called Early English Physicians, Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Kenelm Digby, Quacks, John Radcliffe, The Doctor as a bon-vivant and Fees. The text says that Harvey's discovery dates a new era in medical and surgical science. The text names William Bulleyn as, beyond all others, the most sagacious and interesting of the physicians of what may be termed the Elizabethan era.

The text says that Pyrrhus and Vespasian cured maladies by the touch of their fingers. The text says that from Edward the Confessor down to Queen Anne, who laid her healing hands on Samuel Johnson, the belief in the miraculous power of royal or otherwise sacred hands flourished. The book describes Jenner as a simple, unaffected, and devout man.

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John Cordy Jeaffreson

John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831-1901) was an English novelist, antiquary, and archivist born in Framlingham, Suffolk, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He built a following with a series of readable anecdotal histories of the professions, among them A Book about Doctors (1860) and A Book about Lawyers (1867).