maintain himself at home. Mr. Yonge was in his 25th year when he settled at Plymouth; and he obtained, for a beginner, a considerable amount of business. In the following year he married Miss Jane Crampphorne, of Buckland Monachorum, a lady of respectable family and connections, whose mother had a near relative married to Sir Thomas Clifford of Chudleigh, the high treasurer of England. In consequence of the war which had broken out with the French and Dutch, a naval hospital was established at Plymouth, and to it Mr. Yonge, through the interest of the Treasurer, was appointed surgeon. This proved a steady source of professional income. The surgeon-general of the navy, Mr. James Pearse, appointed Mr. Yonge his deputy at Plymouth in 1674, an office which brought him no inconsiderable accession of emolument. In 1678 Mr. Yonge visited London in company with Mr. Sparke, then M.P. for Plymouth; and whilst there was introduced to some of the more distinguished fellows of the Royal Society. In consequence of a conversation with some eminent literary characters during this visit to London, Mr. Yonge was led to write his most important work, the "Currus Triumphalis de Terebintho." This small treatise is full of originality, contains many most important practical suggestions, and, notwithstanding the quaintness of its phraseology, and the vast improvement which surgery has since undergone, may still be read with amusement and instruction. He gives a full account of turpentine as a means of arresting hemorrhage, distinctly describes the flap operation in amputation, and shows that he was familiar with a contrivance analogous to the tourniquet, for the arrest of hemorrhage during operations.

Mr. Yonge now became a person of much importance in his native town, and was called upon to fill in

succession the highest parochial and civic offices. He was elected a member of the common council for the borough of Plymouth in 1679, churchwarden of St. Andrew's in 1682, and in 1694 alderman and mayor of Plymouth. He was appointed surgeon to lord Bath's regiment of militia in 1685, an office which was relinquished in 1689, the duties proving incompatible with his rapidly increasing professional engagements at Plymouth. A more suitable office, however, awaited him. In 1692 he was appointed surgeon to the new dock at Hamoaze, and in consequence of this appointment had to visit London. During his stay he attended Dr. Tyson's anatomical lectures at Surgeons' hall, dined at the public dinner given by the Company, was made free, and without examination admitted a member, an honour which, he states, had never before been thus conferred on any one.

In what year he began to practise as a physician is uncertain. We know that he possessed a licence from the bishop of the diocese to act in that capacity. In 1702, being then in London, he was induced to present himself before the College of Physicians for examination as an Extra Licentiate. Of the examination he underwent (23rd May, 1702), he has left a detailed account. For a copy of this interesting and probably unique document, as well as for much other valuable information, I am indebted to the courtesy and kindness of a learned Fellow of our College, Dr. James Yonge, of Plymouth, a direct descendant of the distinguished practitioner whose career I am now attempting to sketch.

Our physician, for so henceforward we must consider him, was, it would seem, urged by his friend Dr. Charleton to apply for letters testimonial. Of the President Sir Thomas Millington, and of Dr.

Charleton and Dr. Torlesse, two other of his examiners, he speaks in terms of the highest respect and kindness. His estimate of Dr. Samuel Collins, the author of a well-known work on anatomy, is not so favourable. All, however, complimented him on the appearance he had made, and treated him, he says, quite as their equal. His answers prove him to have been a man of much originality, of deep thought, and well versed in the practice of his art.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society 3rd November, 1702, and his contributions to the Philosophical Transactions are numerous and important.

In 1703, being then in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and having attained a good estate and more professional employment than he desired, feeling anxious too for relaxation and ease, he declined public business and employment. Thenceforward he lived somewhat retired, though not without usefulness. In 1707 he embalmed the body of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who had lost his life in the wreck of the "Association," off the Scilly Isles, and whose body had been brought to the citadel at Plymouth, nine days after. This would seem to have been the last professional duty which he performed. Our physician survived for many years, and dying the 25th June, 1721, was buried in St. Andrew's church, Plymouth. On the monument to his memory is the following inscription :

Here underneath
lyeth buried the body
of JAMES YONGE, Physitian,
Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was once Mayor of this his
native town, and dyed the 25th
day of July, 1721, in the 76th year
of his age.

He was the author of

Some Considerations touching the Debates, &c. concerning the Newfoundland Trade. 4to. 1670.

Currus Triumphalis è Terebintho. 8vo. 1679.

Wound of the Brain proved curable. 12mo. 1685.

Medicator Medicatus. 8vo. 1685.

Sidrophel Vapulans. 4to. 1699.

Several Evidences which have not yet appeared in the Controversy on Eikon Basalic.*

PATRICK HEPBURN, A.M.-A master of arts of the university of Edinburgh, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 4th November, 1702.

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SIR DAVID HAMILTON, M.D. a native of Scotland, and a doctor of medicine, probably of the university of Paris, D.M.I. de Passione Hysterica, 4to. 1686; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 9th April, 1688. On the 25th June, 1703, being then physician in ordinary to the Queen, he was admitted a Fellow of the College. Sir David Hamilton was the leading practitioner of midwifery in the metropolis, and is said to have amassed in the exercise of his profession a fortune of 80,000l., all of which was lost in one year, 1720, in the South Sea Scheme.t "He was," says Daniel Turner, “better qualified for the chirurgical operation of delivery than the medical province of prescription." He lived in Bow-lane, and must have died in 1721 or 1722. He was the author of—

Tractatus duplex, prior de Praxeos Regulis; alter de Febre Miliari. 8vo. Lond. 1710;

and of some pamphlets of a religious tendency. In "The Private Christian's Witness to the Truth of

* Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journal for April, 1849.

† Houston's Memoirs of his own Lifetime. 8vo. Lond. 1753, p. 82.

Christianity," he represents it as the matter of his frequent experience, that future events were pointed out to him in the course of his praying in such a manner that he could judge as to the success he should have in his undertakings.

ROGER KENYON, A.B.-A bachelor of arts of Cambridge of 1685, and a fellow of St. John's college in that university; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1703.

ROBERT NASMYTH was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 11th February, 1703-4. He practised at Great Yarmouth.

EDMUND FROST, a practitioner at Hunston in Suffolk, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College 26th April, 1704.

THOMAS HODGSON was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 16th March, 1704-5. He practised at Lancaster.

JOHN SHEPPARD was admitted an Extra Licentiate 16th April, 1705. He practised at Framlingham in Suffolk.

THOMAS WHALLEY was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 20th June, 1705. He was then practising with much repute at Lewes.

TOBIAS WHARTON, of Stockton, in the county of Durham, was admitted an Extra Licentiate 10th August, 1705.

BENJAMIN WALLER, of Newport Pagnell, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 12th December, 1705.