Volume 1

The life of a travelling physician, from his first introduction to practice; including twenty years' wanderings through the greater part of Europe / [Anon].

  • Lefevre, George William, 1798-1846.
Date:
1843
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Credit: The life of a travelling physician, from his first introduction to practice; including twenty years' wanderings through the greater part of Europe / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the corner of his mouth. I never saw any thing less medical in my life in appearance; for instead of seeing a figure all in black, a uniform appropriate to the profession, I found this inhabitant of the West End manor dressed in a long loose coat, and a red cravat tied loosely round his neck. He was skim- ming over my introductory epistle, and turning to me—<c Well, and so you would be for going abroad ? ” I replied in the affirmative, provided I could find some means of franking myself. <e That’s not so easy,” he replied; “ families do not take medical men with them now-a-days, for they find enough of them every where, and it is a horrid bore to be bothered with a stranger.” There was, I thought, a particularly ugly cast in his eyes as he made this speech. 66 I know a gentleman,” continued he, “ who is going to Spain, but he wants no doctor.” In a moment I seized the idea, and replied, I have some thoughts of going to Lisbon, where I have friends. He made no direct reply, but I thought there was a more amiable turn in his other eye. “ Where are you to be found ? ” he continued; I gave him the address of my West India friend. (i What, is he one of your cronies, the old fool ? ” and cocking both eyes, he shook me by the hand and told me to call again in a day or two if I passed that Avay. I observed that he had scribbled my address on a piece of paper, which I thought looked well. From Pall Mall East I descended a little in the aristocratic scale, and made my next assault upon a