The Great Plague. The Story of London\'s Most Deadly Year
136 • Confusion There was little doubt about the demographics of death that August as the epidemic peaked at Cripplegate and con ...
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Never let any man ask me what became of our physicians in this massacre. They hid their synodical heads as well as the proudest ...
140 • The Abyss hundred persons. In the fifteen years before 1665 , Walbrook had experienced on average eighteen deaths a year f ...
The Doctors Stumble• 141 rious malady might involve some corrupting or putrefaction of an individ- ual’s internal humors, its or ...
142 • The Abyss owned by the absent Dean Sancroft and other substantial citizens. The par- ish was heavily infected. Peter Barwi ...
The Doctors Stumble • 143 This advertisement stopped just short of offering to treat patients rather than simply selling medicin ...
144 • The Abyss capital, perhaps between 250 and 300 doctors, apothecaries, and surgeons re- mained out of a normal cohort of so ...
Map 3. London Medical Marketplace during the Great Plague Lo mb ard oC nhr ill guildhall boundary ofcity liberties Chancer y Lan ...
146 • The Abyss within the city and liberties.” Additional salary payments would be made if their services continued through the ...
The Doctors Stumble • 147 six hours’ notice for appointments from plague sufferers.^17 Boghurst was ap- palled at the thin cover ...
148 • The Abyss The Pamphlet Wars Prolonged Certain scurrilous, lying pamphlets have been vented abroad against me, under disgui ...
The Doctors Stumble• 149 apothecaries and surgeons taking orders from the physicians for the duration of the visitation.^25 The ...
150 • The Abyss The Anatomy Lesson I was left destitute of two of my dearest friends in my saddest condition. —George Thomson,Lo ...
The Doctors Stumble• 151 Thomson said he stopped to wash his hand and hold it over a dish of burning brimstone. But he worried t ...
152 • The Abyss What really happened? The educated public was left to speculate from ex- isting knowledge about plague and the f ...
The Doctors Stumble• 153 ration came from Francis Bacon’s electrifying call, after the Great Plague of 1603 , to reexamine the w ...
154 • The Abyss Robert Boyle and his onetime assistant, the microscopist Robert Hooke. A few physicians were also members, inclu ...
The Doctors Stumble• 155 when air entered. This led to debates on where to find the healthiest air for the blood and the other h ...
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