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The Rise of a Foppish Physician in London
A young Cambridge graduate travels through Edinburgh and Leyden to London then Paris before returning to take a prominent post in a southern county. He adopts elaborate dress, manners, and a polyglot medical jargon to win patients, but his ascent reveals the seductions and pretensions of a physician’s life.
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East Riding of
Yorkshire
Ripwalds
University of Cambridge
Hippocrates
Cambridge
Edinburgh
London
Leyden
Paris
St James’s
Pierot
Bond
Lambert
Shevreau
Femline
Sadler's Wells
Hoyle
Douglas
Covent Garden