Preface -- An Alabama student [John Y. Bassett, reprinted from the Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- Thomas Dover, physician and buccaneer. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan., 1896] -- John Keats, the apothecary poet. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, no. 58, Jan. 1896] -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. -- John Locke as a physician. [The Lancet, Oct. 20, 1900] -- Elisha Bartlett, a Rhode Island philosopher. [Transactions of the Rhode Island medical society] -- A backwood physiologist [William Beaumont] -- The influence of Louis on American medicine. [Johns Hopkins hospital bulletin, nos. 77-78, August-September, 1897] -- William Pepper. -- Alfred Stillé. [University of Pennsylvania medical bulletin, June, 1902] -- Sir Thomas Browne. [The Library, Jan., 1906] - Fracastorius. [Proceedings of the Charaka club, vol. II] -- Harvey and his discovery [Harveian oration delivered at the Royal college of physicians, London, Oct. 18, 1906]