Excerpt from The Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol. 53: January to June, 1900 Digby appears with Drs. Willis, Allen, King, Cox, Thom, Gilbert. Is Lady Hobby one of the Evesham family? The pastor was not so good a gossip as the rector; on the other hand, he is not so superstitious, and, if he is archaic in his account of the colours Of urines, he is judicious in his remarks on the convulsions of children. I have no adequate answer to the question who tended the poor, or who looked after those who had neither poverty nor riches. Of these the profession is not usually negligent: yet medical history has more to say of the attendants on royalty and wealth. It is natural, since from the upper grades of the profession was to be expected all that would forward the practice by sound theory based on educated observation. One regrets all the same that so little survives of the personal history of the ancient Gideon Grays, who toiled in the acquisition of experience, and are now remembered only by the cheap witlings who read their receipts with the contempt born of imperfect knowledge. If the profession had as little to attract as Burton Would have us believe, the blame rested with the clerical profession, whose learning or genius failed to point the road to more solid gains of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.