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MORE than any other period, the eighteenth century is rich in memoirs and biographical history, and from these sources have been obtained most of our facts regarding the mode of life, the characters, and the mental activities of those who were representative of that age. But estimates of the lives and work of physicians have not appeared so frequently, although many medical men in the eighteenth century influenced the social life of their period profoundly enough to merit a biographical memoir.
Dr. John Fothergill and his Friends: Chapters in Eighteenth-century Life.
By Dr. R. Kingston Fox. Pp. xxiv + 434. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 21s. net.
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Dr. John Fothergill and his Friends: Chapters in Eighteenth-century Life . Nature 104, 1 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104001a0
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