the latter end of king William's reign," says Mr. Wadd, "there was a great debate who should succeed the deceased physician to the Tower. The contending parties were so equally matched in their interests and pretensions, that it was extremely difficult to determine which should have the preference. The matter was at length brought to a compromise, and Gideon Harvey was promoted to that office, for the same reason that Sextus V. was advanced to the pontificate, because he was in appearance sickly and infirm, and his death was expected in a few months. He, however, survived, not only his rivals, but all his contemporary physicians, and died after he had enjoyed his sinecure above fifty years." Gideon Harvey wrote a large number of small books of questionable character, which attained a certain notoriety in their day, but were never esteemed by the profession. He seems, says one account of him, to have been an hypothetical prater throughout, and to have differed just as much from his great namesake, the discoverer of the circulation, as a quack differs from a true physician. The following list includes the chief of his publications Archeologia Philosophica nova, or new Principles of Philosophy. 4to. Lond. 1663 A Discourse of the Plague. 4to. Lond. 1665. Morbus Anglicus, or the Anatomy of Consumptions. 12mo. Lond. 1666. Little Venus Unmasked, or a perfect discovery of the French Pox. 12mo. Lond. 1671. Great Venus Unmasked, or a more exact discovery of the Venereal Disease. 8vo. Lond. 1672. De Febribus Tractatus theoreticus, et practicus præcipuè, quo Praxin curandarum Febrium continuarum modernam esse lethiferam et barbaram abundè patefit. 8vo. Lond. 1672. The Disease of London, or a new discovery of the Scurvy. 8vo. Lond. 1674. The Conclave of Physicians, in two parts, detecting their Intrigues, Frauds, and Plots against their Patients, and their destroying the Faculty of Physick. 12mo. Lond. 1683. The Family Physician and House Apothecary. 12mo. Lond. 1676. The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation. 12mo. Lond. 1689. The Vanities of Philosophy and Physick. 3rd ed. 8vo. Lond. 1702. A Treatise of the Small Pox and Measles. 12mo. Lond. 1696. SIMON BROWN, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Utrecht of 1695, practising in Shropshire, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 20th May, 1702. 66 JAMES YONGE was the son of Mr. John Yonge, a surgeon at Plymouth, and was born in that town 11th May, 1646. He was educated at the Plymouth Grammar School under Mr. Horsemann, where he remained only two years, being, in the early part of 1657, ere he had attained his eleventh year, apprenticed to Mr. Richmond, surgeon of the "Constant Warwick," a ship of 31 guns and 130 men. In May, 1661, he was appointed surgeon's assistant to the Montague," 64 guns and 250 men, one of the fleet then lying at the Downs, under Lord Sandwich. He was present at the bombardment of Algiers, and in his Diary (still preserved in MS. at the Plymouth Institution) has left a painfully detailed account of the menial duties he had to perform, and of his sufferings, more especially after a battle. He went down, he informs us, to dress the wounded men, who were placed on heaps of clothes to make it soft for them. Here he had not only to dress wounds, but to perform all those duties which now devolve on nurses and surgery attendants. To boil gruel, to make barley-water for the sufferers, to prepare fomentations and poultices, to wash and dry bandages and rollers, to administer glysters, make the hammocks, to shave and trim any one requiring it, were the duties, besides the ordinary business of the surgery, which it fell to his lot to perform when surgeon's assistant to the "Montague." The fleet returned to England in May 1662, when Mr. Yonge was discharged for a time from the service of the navy. He then came to London with the view of improving himself in the knowledge and practice of surgery, and spent four months with Mr. Clark, a surgeon apothecary of Wapping, where he confesses he learned a great deal. Mr. Yonge returned to Plymouth in September, 1662, and bound himself to his father for seven years. The apprenticeship, however, lasted for a short time only. In February, 1663, he was engaged to go as surgeon of the "Reformation" to Newfoundland. He returned in September; and in March, 1664, sailed in the "Bonaventure Bonaventure" for the West African coast, then went up the Mediterranean, and, returning to England, again received a temporary discharge from the service. In December, 1665, he again sailed in the same ship, but ere long the "Bonaventure " was captured by two Dutch vessels. Mr. Yonge, with the other prisoners, was conveyed to Amsterdam, and remained a close prisoner of war until September, when he got out on parole. Shortly afterwards he was exchanged for a relative of the secretary of the Dutch admiralty, then in prison at Harwich; and, returning to England, proceeded through London to Plymouth. There he remained, partly occupied in practice, by which, to use his own words, he made a little money to maintain himself; and partly in study, until February, 1668, when he sailed once more for Newfoundland. He finally returned to Plymouth in September, 1670; and then, after fourteen years' naval service, took leave of the sea with the resolution of settling in his native town, and attempting, by the exercise of his profession, to Frauds, and Plots against their Patients, and their destroying the Faculty of Physick. 12mo. Lond. 1683. The Family Physician and House Apothecary. 12mo. Lond. 1676. The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation. 12mo. Lond. 1689. The Vanities of Philosophy and Physick. 3rd ed. 8vo. Lond. 1702. A Treatise of the Small Pox and Measles. 12mo. Lond. 1696. SIMON BROWN, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Utrecht of 1695, practising in Shropshire, was admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of Physicians 20th May, 1702. JAMES YONGE was the son of Mr. John Yonge, a surgeon at Plymouth, and was born in that town 11th May, 1646. He was educated at the Plymouth Grammar School under Mr. Horsemann, where he remained only two years, being, in the early part of 1657, ere he had attained his eleventh year, apprenticed to Mr. Richmond, surgeon of the "Constant Warwick," a ship of 31 guns and 130 men. In May, 1661, he was appointed surgeon's assistant to the "Montague," 64 guns and 250 men, one of the fleet then lying at the Downs, under Lord Sandwich. He was present at the bombardment of Algiers, and in his Diary (still preserved in MS. at the Plymouth Institution) has left a painfully detailed account of the menial duties he had to perform, and of his sufferings, more especially after a battle. He went down, he informs us, to dress the wounded men, who were placed on heaps of clothes to make it soft for them. Here he had not only to dress wounds, but to perform all those duties which now devolve on nurses and surgery attendants. To boil gruel, to make barley-water for the sufferers, to prepare fomentations and poultices, to wash and dry bandages and rollers, to administer glysters, make the hammocks, to shave and trim any one requiring it, were the duties, besides the ordinary business of the |