CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
LONDON FROM THE SANITARY POINT OF VIEW.
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Situation	7
Water Supply	10
Mediæval London	16
Gardens and Pleasure Grounds	18
Health of Old London	24
The London “Death Rate”	31
Improved Condition of Modern London	34
What is the Outlook?	36
Annual Death-Rate per 100,000 Living of Children under 5 Years of Age from Whooping-cough and Measles during the 10 Years 1871–80	41
The Loose End of our Sanitation	44
CHAPTER II.
LONDON FROM THE MEDICAL POINT OF VIEW.
Chaucer’s Doctor	50
Earliest London Practitioners	53
The Severance of Medicine and Surgery	56
The Earliest Medical Act	59
The College of Physicians	60
The Plague	72
Secret Remedies	86
The Crusade against Quackery	89
Medicine in the Days of Pepys	92
The Barber-Surgeons	95
The First Anatomy Lectures	97
The Apothecaries	101
The Royal Society	101
Gresham College	103
The Earliest Hospitals	106
The Royal Hospitals	110
Early Hospital Practice	112
The Pharmacopœias	117
The Rise of the Medical Schools	119
Hospitals Built by Public Benevolence	120
Modern Medical Schools and Examinations	123
London as a Place of Study	127