The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mind that he was untouched by the misanthropy of Swift and though in frequent contact with the intriguing Pope was always truthful and straightforward. I dwell upon these merits because they show what the influence of this physician was on these geniuses of his time. Indeed Swift’s remark on the dozen Arbuthnot’s shows this clearly and it appears in several of Pope’s letters. Great as was the conversation of the begin¬ ning of the eighteenth century, much as we could wish for evenings with the Kit Cat Club or with Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot, the greatest of all recorded English conversation is that of the latter half of the same century. Interest in it has never flagged since the incomparable Boswell laid his record of it before the world. It was chiefly conversation of men who cared for books and life, and while every reading man studies it, it seems to have an especial charm 4—2