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Title page; Imprint page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 - In the beginning; PART I - Doctors to royalty and national leaders; 2 - Two royal doctors who came to a sticky end; 3 - Doctors to Charles I and Charles II; 4 - The incompetent doctors of Mad George III; 5 - Death of a pr...

11 - Words most sublime: John Keats and Somerset Maugham12 - The lexicographer: Peter Roget; 13 - Prolific essayist and poet: Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr; 14 - Amighty Russian composer:Alexander Borodin; 15 - Atheatrical thespian: Sir Charles Wyndham; 16 - The nearly doctor: Francis Thompson; 17 - Sta...

21 - Two inventors of murderous contraptions: Joseph Guillotin and Richard Jordan Gatling22 - Two great explorers: Mungo Parkand George Bass; 23 - 'Doctor Livingstone, I presume'; 24 - The Grace family and other cricketers; 25 - Two world-beating athletes: Sir Roger Bannister and Jack Lovelock; 26 -...

30 - Flawed anatomist and criminal: Robert Knox31 - Murder on campus: Professor John Webster; 32 - Serial poisoner: William Palmer; 33 - Cora, Ethel and the telegraph wireless: Hawley Crippen; 34 - The Lake District murderer: Buck Ruxton; 35 - How did he get away with it?John Bodkin Adams; Bibliogra...