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When a cane was the necessary complement of a physician.

Although Dr John Radcliffe's gold-headed cane, presented to the Royal College of Physicians in 1825, became well-known following the publication two years later of Dr William Macmichael's book, The gold-headed cane, little consideration has previously been given either to medical canes, or to the custom of cane-carrying by doctors in the 18th century. This article makes a brief assessment of medical canes within the social and historical framework of the period, and views Macmichael's book in its literary context, with mention of other relevant examples of books in this genre.

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PubMed1998

Dentistry in the literature of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.

It is possible to get more than a glimpse of the dental condition of the English population in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries just by reading the works of the writers of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline ages. Several dental references are included.

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