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Endnotes

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(1) Porter, R. and Roberts, Marie Mulvey. Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth-Century. London: Routledge, 1994. Pg. 1.

Waiting Room

(2) Porter, R. and Roberts, Marie Mulvey. "Literature and Medicine During the Eighteenth-Century," 33.

Doctors' Training in the Eighteenth Century.

(3) Peterson, M. Jeanne. The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London. London: University of California Press, 1978. Pg. 41.

(4) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 50.

(5) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 42.

(6) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 44.

(7) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 42.

(8) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 43.

(9) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 48.

(10) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 44.

(11) Peterson, M. Jeanne. "The Medical Profession in Mid-Victorian London," 44-45.

The Pox

(12) Merians, Linda E. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Pg. 8.

(13) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 8.

(14) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 2.

(15) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 8.

(16) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 5.

(17) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 7.

(18) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 194.

(19) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 115-116.

(20) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 108.

(21) Merians, Linda E. "The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth Century Britain and France," 23.

Fever

(22) Forster, William. A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them. ... Also on the various kinds and qualities of foods; with an essay on sickness and health; and rules to preserve the body to a good old age. To which is added, a compendious discourse on children's diseases, and tradesmen's distemper's [sic]. London: printed for J. Clarke; G. Hawkins, and W. Reeve,1746.FILM X1493 reel 2166 no. 7. Pg. 21.

(23) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(24) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(25) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(26) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(27) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(28) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 21.

(29) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 22.

(30) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 23.

Small Pox

(31) Phillips, M. & Tomkinson W.S. English Women in Life and Letters. London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Pg. 61.

(32) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death." Annals of Internal Medicine 127 (1997): 635-642. http://38.232.17.254/journals/annals/15oct97/smallpox.html

(33) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(34) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(35) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(36) Forster, William. "Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 61.

(37) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(38) Forster, William. Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 30.

(39) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 30.

(40) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 31.

(41) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 31.

(42) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 31.

(43) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(44) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 32.

(45) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 33.

(46) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 33.

(47) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(48) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

(49) Barquet, Nicolau and Domingo, Peter. "Smallpox: The Triumph over the Most Terrible of the Ministers of Death."

Fainting

(50) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 90.

(51) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 90.

(52) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 90.

(53) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 90.

(54) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 90.

(55) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 91.

(56) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 91.

(57) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 92.

(58) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 92.

(59) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 92.

Head-Ach

(60) Surgery Door Pain Center. "A brief history of headache treatment." July 25, 2000. http://www.surgerydoor.co.uk/coe/ paincentre/headache_history.shtml.

(61) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 56.

(62) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 60.

(63) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 56.

(64) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 60.

(65) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 60.

(66) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 58.

(67) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 58.

(68) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 59.

(69) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 60.

(70) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 56.

(71) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 56.

Case Studies

(72) Radcliffe, Ann. The Italian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. Pg. 55.

(73) Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. London: Penguin Books, 1996. Pg. 108.

(74) Forster, William. "A treatise on the causes of most diseases incident to human bodies, and the cure of them," 60.

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