de Diabete), and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 1st April, 1751. He was elected physician to the Middlesex hospital 29th August, 1749, and, after a service of seven months only, resigned his office there 3rd April, 1750. Dying in 1772, aged fifty-seven, he was buried in the church of St. Mary Aldermary.

SIR JOHN BAPTIST SILVESTER, M.D., was born in Aquitaine, and educated at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine 9th October, 1738. He served as physician to the army in the Low Countries, and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1751. Appointed physician to the London hospital 22nd February, 1748, he resigned his office 3rd October, 1764, and in 1777 withdrew from practice, and retired to Bath, where he died the 2nd November, 1789. He was interred in the Dutch church, Austin Friars. He was knighted 21st July, 1774, but under what circumstances I have been unable to discover.

GEORGE LAMONT, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Aberdeen, of 11th July, 1727; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1751.

FRANCIS PHILIP DUVAL, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Leyden, of 25th October, 1726 (D.M.I. de Emeticorum effectibus in Corpore Humano), was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1751. Dr. Duval was physician to the dowager princess of Wales, and died 9th July, 1768.

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PHILIP DE LA COUR, M.D., was born in London, and on the 12th April, 1730, being then twenty years age, was entered on the physic line at Leyden, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine 18th August, 1733 (D.M.I. de naturali Catameniorum fluxu, 4to.). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1751. In 1772 he retired to Bath, and died there 21st November, 1780.

SAMUEL JEBB, M.D.-This accomplished scholar was the second son of Samuel Jebb, a maltster of Mansfield, co. Nottingham, and was born either in that town or at Nottingham, but most probably the former. He was destined for the church, and was sent to Peterhouse, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded bachelor of arts in 1712. Becoming attached, however, to the non-jurors he left the university, and accepted the office of librarian to the celebrated Jeremy Collier. Shortly after this he married a relation of the wife of Mr. Dillingham, a noted apothecary in Red Lion-square, from whom, on the recommendation of Dr. Mead, he took instruction in chemistry and pharmacy. He had before this made for himself a reputation as an able scholar, and for many years mainly supported himself by his pen. The intervals from these labours he now devoted to the study of physic; and, proceeding to Rheims, there took his degree of doctor of medicine 12th March, 1728. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1751; and settling at Stratford, Essex, practised there with considerable success for some years. Having accumulated a moderate fortune, he retired to Chesterfield, co. Derby, where he died 9th March, 1772, leaving several children, one of whom, Sir Richard Jebb, hart., M.D., will have to be mentioned hereafter. Dr. Jebb's publications were very numerous. The following will, I believe, be found a tolerably correct list of them :

Justini Martyris cum Tryphone Dialogus. 8vo. Lond. 1719.

Translation of the Rev. Daniel Martin's Two Critical Dissertations-I. Upon the 7th verse of the 1st chapter of St. John's First Epistle. II. In Defence of the Testimony given to our Saviour by Josephus. 8vo. Lond. 1719.

Proposals for publishing a new edition of the Works of Aristides in Four Volumes. 8vo. Lond. 1720.

Bibliotheca Literaria.

This extended to ten numbers, the first of which appeared in 1722, the last in 1724.

De Vitâ et Rebus gestis Mariæ Scotorum Reginæ, Francia Dotaria. 2 vols. Fol.

The History of the Life and Reign of Mary Queen of Scots and Dowager of France; extracted from original Records and Writers of Credit. 8vo. Lond. 1725.

Ælii Aristidis Adrianensis Opera Omnia Græcè et Latinè. 2 tom. Oxon. 4to. 1730.

Johannis Caii Britanni, de Canibus Britannicis, Liber unus-de Variorum Animalium et Stirpium &c. Liber unus-de Libris Propriis, Liber unus-de Pronunciatione Græcæ et Latine Linguæ cum Scriptione Novâ, Libellus, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recogniti. 8vo. Lond. 1729.

Friar Bacon's Opus Majus, from a MS. in the Public Library. Fol. Lond. 1733.

Humphr. Hodii de Græcis illustribus, Linguæ Græcæ, Literarumque humaniorum Instauratoribus-Præmittitur de Vitâ et Scriptis ipsius Humphredi Hodii Dissertatio. 8vo. Lond. 1742.

Mr. Bridges' MSS. relating to the History of Northamptonshire were confided to the editorial care of Dr. Jebb, who published two parts in folio; but circumstances then occurred to interfere with its completion, and the papers were handed to Mr. Whalley.

ROBERT WATSON, M.D., was of Catherine hall, Cambridge; M.B. 1745; M.D. 3rd July, 1750. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 1st October, 1750, and a Fellow 30th September, 1751. He delivered the Gulstonian Lectures in 1753, and was Censor the same year. Dr. Watson was for a short time physician to the Westminster hospital. Elected to that office in 1752, he resigned it in 1754, and died 2nd March, 1756. "In him," writes the "Gentleman's Magazine," "the public has lost a real scholar, an excellent physician, an admirable philosopher, and, in every consideration, a most worthy person."

JOHN CLEPHANE, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of St. Andrew's, of 29th May, 1729, who had served as physician to the army in the Low Countries, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1752. He was appointed physician to St. George's hospital, 8th May, 1751. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 4th May, 1749, and died 11th

October, 1758. Dr. Clephane is remembered as the intimate friend and correspondent of David Hume the historian.

GEORGE MACAULAY, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Padua, of 16th April, 1739; was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College of Physicians 24th September, 1746. In 1752 he removed to London, and on the 25th June of that year was admitted a Licentiate. He was physician and treasurer to the Lying-in hospital in Brownlow-street. About the year 1756, as Dr. Denman tells us, there was a consultation of the most eminent obstetricians in London to consider the moral rectitude of and advantages which might be expected from the induction of premature labour in certain cases of contracted pelvis; when the plan received their general approval, and it was decided to adopt it for the future. The first case in which it was considered necessary was undertaken with success by Dr. Macaulay in 1756. He died the 16th September, 1766.

JAMES DARGENT was admitted a Licentiate of the College 3rd July, 1752. He was physician to the Westminster hospital from 1762 to 1787.

DANIEL PETER LAYARD, M.D., was a doctor of medicine of Rheims of 9th March, 1742. He was elected physician-accoucheur to the Middlesex hospital in April, 1747; but, his health giving way shortly afterwards, he retired for a time to the continent. On his return to England he settled at Huntingdon, and practised there for some years with eminent success. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 3rd July, 1752. About 1762 he quitted Huntingdon, and, returning to London, soon got into extensive practice as an accoucheur. Dr. Layard died at Greenwich in February, 1802, in the eighty-second year of his age. He was a fellow of the Royal societies of London and Gottingen, and a vice-president of the British Lying-in

hospital, of which he had been one of the founders. He was brother to Mary Anne duchess of Ancaster, and father to the dean of Bristol. In 1792 he had the honorary degree of D.C.L. conferred upon him by the university of Oxford. Dr. Layard contributed some papers to the "Philosophical Transactions," and published

An Essay on the Contagious Distemper among the Horned Cattle in these Kingdoms. 8vo. Lond. 1757.

Essay on the Bite of a Mad Dog. 8vo. Lond. 1762.

An Account of the Somersham Water in the county of Huntingdon. 8vo. Lond. 1767.

Pharmacopoeia in Usum Gravidarum Puerperarum, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1776.

ROBERT PATE, M.D.-A doctor of medicine of Aberdeen, of 12th June, 1750; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1752. He was elected physician to St. Bartholomew's hospital 16th January, 1752; and died at his house in Hattongarden 13th January, 1762.

EDWARD ARCHER, M.D., was born in Southwark, and studied his profession first in Edinburgh, and afterwards at Leyden, where he proceeded doctor of medicine 26th August, 1746 (D.M.I. de Rheumatismo, 4to.). He was elected physician to the Small-pox hospital in 1747; and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1752. The great object of Dr. Archer's life was the improvement of the practice in small-pox, and the advancement of inoculation. He was a humane, judicious, and learned physician; and to the study of medicine he added that of polite literature, which he patronised in most of its branches. He was an accomplished classical scholar and left behind him a valuable and well-chosen library. Possessing a fortune adequate to his views in life, and being fond of retirement and study, he was never solicitous about the emoluments of his profession, and for some years before his death altogether declined private