Sketches of the history of medicine, ancient and modern ... / [Saunders].

  • Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.
Date:
1867
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    and keep the key. Radcliffe’s answer was, “Tell Sir Godfrey Kneller he may do what he likes with' the door provided he does not paint it.” Kneller retorted to this sarcasm, “ Tell the doctor I will take anything from him except his physic.” I cannot find that Radcliffe ever published any work; but at his death he left the munificent sum of £40,000 to the University of Oxford for the formation of a pub- lic library of medical and philosophical science, and a further considerable sum to provide for an annual aug- mentation of books and instruments. Garth, in allu- sion to this bequest, remarked that for Radcliffe to found a library was as if an Eunuch should establish a Seraglio. Samuel Garth was among the celebrities of this time: the correspondent of Bolingbroke, the friend of Swift and Addison, and the patron of Pope, he must have possessed great merit to have reached such a position. He was born of a good family in Yorkshire: the date of his birth I have been unable to discover, but he was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1693. Johnson classes him with the English Poets, and in his description of him says, “ He is always mentioned