We deem it appropriate to begin study of types of physicians in fiction with an author who, according to Sir Walter Scott, was the father of English and whose Tom Jones is considered by foremost critics to be greatest novel that was ever written. Although many of libraries here and abroad have placed Fielding's works inthe index expurgatorium, yet observation made by Burrow1some sixty years ago holds good even in our generation. He calls Fielding the most singular genius their island produced, whose works it had been fashion to abuse in public and to read in private. In Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia no physician appears as a prominent character, but a number of medical men, surgeons and apothecaries make their appearance, and, with exception of two, they offer excellent material for formation of an opinion of tendencies, foibles, shortcomings and petty jealousies among physicians of Eighteenth Century. We say prevailing tendencies advisedly.