Doctors of Samuel Johnson and his court / by James P. Warbasse.

  • James Peter Warbasse
Date:
1908
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Credit: Doctors of Samuel Johnson and his court / by James P. Warbasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    name. Among his other poems worthy of mention are “Patriot- ism,” “Inscription for a Monument to Shakespere,” and “Inscrip- tion for a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock.” It is in the life of Akenside that Johnson makes the state- ment that, “A physician in a great city seems to be the play- thing of fortune; his degree of re])utation is, for the most part, casual: they that emi)loy him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficicnce.” Roisert James, M.D. (1702-1776), had his early schooling at Lichfield where he was a school fellow with Johnson. The