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Title: The gold-headed cane
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Macmichael, William, 1784-1839
Subjects: Radcliffe, John, 1650-1714 Mead, Richard, 1673-1754 Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774 Pitcairn, David, 1749-1809 Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823 Radcliffe, John, 1650-1714 Mead, Richard, 1673-1754 Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774 Pitcairn, David, 1749-1809 Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823
Publisher: New York, P.B. Hoeber
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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h thesanctity of the ground. On your right youleave the magnificent structure of St. Pauls,and traversing Creed Lane, Ave Maria Lane,Paternoster Row, you finally reach AmenCorner. All these places are within a stonesthrow of one another; whether the spirit ofinnovation, and the change of fashion, may atany future period overcome the genius loci, re-mains to be proved. I have often heard itobserved, that though it is convenient to someof us, who live towards the east, yet upon thewhole, it is a pity the College was built so nearNewgate Prison, and in so obscure a hole; afault in placing most of our public buildingsand churches in the City, which is to be attri-buted to the avarice of some few men, and toHis Majesty Charles the Second not over-ruling it when it was in his power, after thedreadful conflagration. The library of Dr. Mead never witnesseeda more brilliant assembly than this; at leastthe conversation which I have endeavouredto relate made a great impression upon me. MEAD. 133
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I do not mean, as was said before, to dwellupon the details of the private practice ofDr. Mead; for, to tell the truth, I have longbeen (to use one of our new-fangled Frenchwords) rather blase on the topic of medicalcases. How, indeed, can it be otherwise withme, who have seen five generations of physi-cians; and must, therefore, have infinitelymore experience than any doctor who everexisted? One hundred and thirty years haveelapsed since I first became connected withphysic; for I am almost coeval with the Col- * Interior of Meads Library; from an engraving inthe British Museum. 134 MEAD. lege in Warwick Lane, having made my firstappearance fifteen years only after the com-pletion of that building; and can only be saidto have completely retired from the bustle ofpractice within the last two or three years.With the usual appearance of the symptomsof diseases, the ordinary remedies prescribed,and the common topics of consolation and ad-vice, I soon became, even from the very com-menceme
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