The Thirty-Third Long Fox Memorial Lecture: English Doctors from Smollett to Trollope *It has been possible to print only a shortened version of the Lecture.
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What sort of people were the doctors in this country two hundred years ago and later ? How did they dress, speak and act, and how did their contemporaries regard them ? One way to answer these questions is to read the novels of the time : provided, of course, that we confine ourselves to those novels which attempt to portray contemporary life and manners, and which were accepted as such by the reading public of the day. Characterisation is sister to caricature : but we must not be too rigid?who, for example, would exclude the Pickwick Papers ? It has been possible to print only a shortened version of the Lecture.
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