Oriel, proceeded A.M. 2nd June, 1785; M.B. 31st January, 1787; M.D. 15th July, 1788. Admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1788; and a Fellow, 30th September, 1789; he was Censor in 1790, 1795, 1797, 1804, 1808; Harveian orator in 1795; and Elect, 10th April, 1807, which last office he resigned 6th October, 1813. Dr. Mayo was appointed physician to the Foundling hospital in 1787, and physician to the Middlesex hospital 6th November, 1788. The latter office he resigned in 1803; the former in 1809. He was also physician in ordinary to the princess of Wales. For many years before his death it was Dr. Mayo's custom to divide his time between London and Tunbridge Wells, residing at the latter place during the summer months. There he enjoyed the implicit confidence of all ranks, and took the undisputed lead in the medical business and emoluments of that town and neighbourhood. Dr. Mayo fixed his permanent abode there in 1817; and dying in 1818, aged fifty-eight, was buried at Speldhurst. Dr. Mayo published a small pamphlet, entitled "The Information and Complaint made to the Court at the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of exposed and deserted Children. 8vo. Lond. 1790." CHRISTOPHER STANGER, M.D., was descended from a family which for several centuries possessed estates in the vale of Keswick. He was born at Whitehaven in Cumberland, where his father was a considerable and much respected merchant. He commenced his medical education by an apprenticeship to a surgeon at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; after which he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he took the degree of doctor of medicine 24th June, 1783 (D.M.I. de iis quæ ad Sanitatem conservandam plurimum conferre videntur). He then visited the more celebrated medical schools upon the continent-Paris, Montpellier, Vienna, Gottingen, and Leyden; and, after an absence of four years, returned to England and settled in London. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1789; was appointed Gresham professor of physic in 1790; and physician to the Foundling hospital in 1792. He died 21st September, 1834, aged seventyfive. Dr. Stanger was a person of extensive attainments and great energy of character. He obtained. much notoriety in his day by his contest with the College of Physicians. He was the author of A Justification of the Right of every well-educated Physician of fair character and mature age, residing within the jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be admitted a Fellow of that Corporation, if found competent. 8vo. Lond. 1798. Remarks on the Necessity and means of suppressing Contagious Fevers in the Metropolis. 12mo. Lond. 1802. JOHN NOTT, M.D., was born at Worcester, 24th December, 1751. Of his general education but little is known; at an early period he evinced a taste for poetic composition, and is said to have made some happy translations from the Latin classics. He commenced his medical studies under Mr. Hector of Birmingham, and then removed to London, where he continued them under Sir Cæsar Hawkins. After a residence of some time in Paris, he travelled for two years on the continent, in medical charge of an invalid gentleman. In 1783 he went out as surgeon on board an East Indiaman, and was absent from England about three years. It was at this period that he learned Persian; and of his proficiency in that language he afterwards gave a convincing proof, in a beautiful and faithful translation of some of the "Odes of Hafiz." On his return to England, he attended his brother and family to the continent, whither they were obliged to go on account of health. He came back in 1788, when Dr. Warren urged him to graduate in medicine. He did so, but where is uncertain; and on the 8th October, 1789, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians; about which time, on Dr. Warren's recommendation, he attended the duchess of Devonshire and lady Duncannon, as their physician, to the con tinent. With that family he remained connected, more or less, until 1793, when he settled at the Hotwells, Bristol, where he practised with distinguished repu tation and success until disabled by hemiplegia. This confined him almost wholly to the house for the last eight years of his life. Dr. Nott died at Bristol in 1825, aged seventy-four, and was interred in the old burialground at Clifton. He was a voluminous writer, as the following list of his published works will testify: Alonzo; or, the Youthful Solitair: a poetic tale. 4to. 1772. Basia; or, a poetic translation of the "Kisses of Johannes Secun dus." 8vo. 1775. Leonora; an Elegy on the Death of a Young Lady. 4to. 1775. Sonnets and Odes from the Italian of Petrarch. 8vo. 1777. Poems, consisting of Original Pieces and Translations. 8vo. 1780. Heroic Epistle in Verse, from Mons. Vestris in London to Mdme. Heimel in France. 4to. 1781. Propertii Monobiblos; or, the Book of the Elegies of Propertius, entitled "Cynthia." 8vo. 1782. Select Odes from the Persian of Hafiz. 4to. 1787. The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, in English verse, with the Latin Text versified, and Classical Notes. 2 vols. 8vo. 1794. Belinda; or, the Kisses of Bonefonius of Auvergne. 8vo. 1797. The First Book of Titus Carus Lucretius on the Nature of Things, with the Latin Text. 8vo. 1779. The Lyrics of Horace, with the Latin Text revised. 2 vols. 8vo. 1803. Sappho after a Greek Romance. 12mo. 1802. : Petrarch: a selection from his Odes and Sonnets translated, with Notes. 8vo. 1808. Select Poems from the Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick. His medical writings were- A Treatise on the Hotwell Waters, near Bristol. 8vo. Lond. 1793. A Chemical Dissertation on the Thermal Waters of Pisa, and on the neighbouring Acidulous Spring of Asciano, &c. To which are added, Analytical Papers respecting the Sulphureous Water of Yverdun. 8vo. Lond. 1792. A Posologic Companion to the Pharmacopoeia. 12mo. Lond. 1793. On the Influenza as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity during 1803. 8vo. Bristol. 1803. THOMAS SUTTON, M.D., was born in Staffordshire. His medical education was commenced in London, continued at Edinburgh, and completed at Leyden, where he proceeded doctor of medicine 19th June, 1787 (D.M.I. de Febre Intermittente), being then twenty years of age. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 29th March, 1790; and soon afterwards was appointed physician to the army. Dr. Sutton eventually settled at Greenwich, where he practised for many years with great reputation, and died in 1835. He was a man of much originality, a careful observer, acute reasoner, and a very shrewd practitioner. He was the first of modern British physicians who advocated bleeding and a rigid antiphlogistic treatment of fever,* and to him we are indebted for the description and discrimination of delirium tremens from the other diseases with which it had been previously confounded. We have from his pen Considerations regarding Pulmonary Consumption. 8vo. Lond. 1799. Practical Account of a Remittent Fever frequently occurring among the Troops in this Climate. 8vo. Canterbury. 1806. Tracts on Delirium Tremens, Peritonitis, and Gout. 1813. 8vo. Lond. Letters addressed to the Duke of York on Consumption. 8vo. Lond. 1814. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, M.D., was the son of Dr. James Saunders, an eminent physician at Banff, in the north of Scotland, and was born in that town in 1743. He received his medical education at Edinburgh, where he obtained the notice and friendship of Dr. Cullen. He took his degree of doctor of medicine in that university 28th October, 1765 (D.M.I. de Antimonio), and then settled in London. Dr. Saunders's inaugural exercise gave ample proof of his attainments as a chemist, a circumstance which served probably to introduce him to Sir George Baker, who was then investigating the whole subject of Devonshire colic, and was assisted by * British and Foreign Medical Review, vol. 1, p. 44. Dr. Saunders in the chemical experiments necessary to the inquiry. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1769; and on the 6th May, 1770, was elected, chiefly through the influence of Sir George Baker, physician to Guy's hospital. Dr. Saunders's attainments in science were considerable; his industry and exertions indefatigable; and what he chiefly wanted to insure success was practical experience, which his hospital appointment now afforded him the opportunity of obtaining. Dr. Saunders's progress to eminence was rapid; and in the course of a few years he was in the enjoyment of a very lucrative city business. He was early elected a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies; and on the nomination of his friend Sir George Baker, then the President, was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians, speciali gratiâ, 25th June, 1790. He served the office of Censor in 1791, 1798, 1805, 1813; was Gulstonian lecturer in 1792; and Harveian orator in 1796. He was appointed physician extraordinary to the prince Regent in 1807; and died at Enfield (whither he had retired about three years previously) on the 29th May, 1817, aged seventythree. His monument in Enfield church is thus inscribed : M. S., Gulielmi Saunders, M.D., Coll: Regal: Med: Lond: et Reg: Societ: Soc.; ejusq cultoribus strenue et constanter faventis. Dr. Saunders' portrait is at the College, to which it was presented by his son, Mr. J. J. Saunders. He was the author of Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry and Pharmacy. 8vo. Lond. 1766. A Letter to Dr. Baker on the Endemial Colic of Devonshire. 8vo. Lond. 1767. |