Volume 2

Biographia medica, or, Historical and critical memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent medical characters that have existed from the earliest account of time to the present period : with a catalogue of their literary productions / by Benjamin Hutchinson, member of the Medical Society of London, of the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, and of the London Company of Surgeons. In Two Volumes.

  • Hutchinson, Benjamin.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Biographia medica, or, Historical and critical memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent medical characters that have existed from the earliest account of time to the present period : with a catalogue of their literary productions / by Benjamin Hutchinson, member of the Medical Society of London, of the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, and of the London Company of Surgeons. In Two Volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prudence were fo confpicuous, that, in 1646, he was elected affiftant to the general, with whom he made the tour of France, Spain, and Italy. Amidft the avocations of his poft, and without neglecting his du- ties, he found the means of applying himfelf to the ftudy of botany, to which he feemed to have a natural propenfity. He collected a great number of plants and ftiells, and made drawings of feveral that had not been known, or but very imperfectly defcribed. He had undertaken a general hiftory of plants, which he intended to entitle, Hortus M.undi or, tm Orbis Botanicus. He was working at it with the utmoft diligence, when an afthma put a period to his labours in 1673, at the age of fixty-feven. All that could Jbe collected of this work was publifhed by Ant. de Juffieu, under the following title, <c Plants per Gal- liam, Hifpaniam, et Italiam obfervatas, et Iconibus seneis exhibits, Paris, 1714, folio. BARRERE (P*ter) Phyficiaiij of Perpignan, died in 1755. He was well verfed in the theory and practice of phy- fic, and had alfo the reputation of being an accurate obferver. His works are the following, i.u Relation et Effai fur l'Hiftoire dela France equinoxiale, 1748, i2ino. 2. Differtation fur la Couleur des Negres, 1741,4to. 3. Obfervations fur 1'Origine des Pierres figurees, 1646, 4to. BARTHOLIN (Thomas) Son of Cafpar Bartholin, an eminent Phyfician, Born at Copenhagen the 20th of October, 1616. After fome years ftudy in his own country, he went to Leyden in 1637, where he ftudied phyfic for three years. He travelled next to France, where he refided two years at Paris and Montpellier, in order to im- M m 4 prove