1. In recent years the best studies in this field have been by Lester King, for example (1958) The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press); (1963) The Growth of Medical Thought (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press); (1970) The Road to Medical Enlightenment 1650–1695 ( London: Macdonald). I am concerned here with scientific rather than social philosophy.
2. Cumston, C. G. (1926) An Introduction to the History of Medicine from the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the XVIIIth Century: with an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F. G. Crookshank (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.), p. xxix.
3. Gandevia, B. (1953) ‘Shakespeare and Chaucer: Their Use of Medical Allusion in the Story of Troilus and Criseyde’, Roy. Melb. Hosp. Clin. Rep. 23, 9.
4. Gandevia, B. (1977) ‘A Comparison of the Heights of Boys Transported to Australia from England, Scotland and Ireland c. 1840, with Later British and Australian Developments’, Aust. Paediat. J. 13, 91. See also Note 17.
5. Gandevia, B. (1976) ‘Some Physical Characteristics, Including Pock Marks, Tattoos and Disabilities, of Convict Boys Transported to Australia from Britain c. 1840’, Aust. Paediat. J. 12, 6.