A medical roll of honour : physicians and surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague / by S.D. Clippingdale.

  • Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd, -1925.
Date:
1909
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Credit: A medical roll of honour : physicians and surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague / by S.D. Clippingdale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Cambridge (Trinity and CaiuH Colleges) where lie took the degrees of IM.H., 1654, and M.D., 1659. lie became a member of the Uoyal College of I'liysicians in 1659, a Fellow in 1671, and Censor in 1674-79, and 1682. lie was a Fellow of the Uoyal Society and I'hysician to Uethlehem Hospital. He died of “dropsy” in 1684. Jiaher, Sir John, resided in iving Street, Covent Carden. He was the son of Mr. John Baber, Recorder of Wells, Somerset, and was horn April 18tli, 1625. He studied first at Winchester and then at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating M.B. (1646) at Oxford, he travelled abroad and took his M.D. (1648) at the University of Angers. On returning to London he joined the Royal College of Phy- sicians, becoming a Fellow in 1657 and Censor in 1660. He was appointed Physician-in-Ordinary to Charles II, and knighted by that monarch, March 19th, 1660. He died in 1703. Sir John Baber’s presence in London during the plague year is established by entries in Fepys's Diary. Barioich (or Berwick), Deter, resided in St. Paul’s Churchyard, until his house was destroyed by the fire of 1666, when he removed to Westminster. He was the son of Mr. George Barwick, of Withurslack, Westmorland, and was born there in 1619. He was educated at Sedbergh Grammar School, and then at the University of Cambridge (St. John’s College), where he took the degrees of B.A. (1642), M.A. (1647), and M.D. (1655). He joined the Royal College of Physicians in 1655, became a Fellow two years later, and was Censor in 1674-84 and 1687. This good man seems to have been noted for his loyalty, his piety, and his charity. He was with Charles I at the battle of Worcester, remained steadfast to the Royal cause during the Commonwealth, and at the restoration was appointed a Physician-in-Ordinary to Charles II. He is mentioned by Dr. Hodges in Loimologia as one of those who remained in London during the plagne year. During the whole of that year he never missed attending daily service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. His practice was to rise at 6, walk over to the Cathedral for prayers, and then return to his house to see gratuitously all sick poor who came to seek his aid. He seems to have stimulated the Cathedral clergy to their duty, for one of the canons writing to the Dean, states that Dr. Barwick had been inquiring as to the celebration of the Holy Communion, which appears to have fallen into abeyance, j)ossibly from the fear of spreading contagion. In old age he became completely blind and suffered severely from stone. He died in his 84th year and was buried in the crypt of St. Faith beneath St. Paul’s Cathedral. He married the widow of an eminent merchant, and left a daughter who became the wife of Sir Ralph Dutton, Bart., of Sherborne. Brooks, Humphrey, lived in Leadenhall Street. He was a Londoner by birth, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School. He subsequently went to Oxford (St. John’s College), and took there the degrees of B.A. (1640), M.B. (1646), and M.D. (1649). He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1640, and