Towards maturity and mental collapse -- Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne -- Smollett's London -- Smollett and the Society of Arts of London -- Smollett as a letter writer -- Smollett and the form of picaresque literature -- Beef and Bouillon : Smollett's achievement as a thinker -- Quackery and charlatanry in some eighteenth-century novels, especially in Smollett -- Smollett and politics -- Smollett and the eighteenth-century sulphur controversy -- Smollett and Paracelsian medicine -- Smollett's wit and the traditions of learning in medicine -- Smollett and Roger Dibon -- Smollett and a Victorian editor -- Smollett and the scholars