of production of aneurism; and he distinctly recognised the existence and office of the vaso-motor nerves. He was the author of Compendium Anatomicum, ea omnia complectens, quæ ad Humani Corporis Economiam spectant. In usum Academiæ Oxoniensis constructum, 1732. This ran to several editions, was much enlarged, and eventually appeared under the title of "Compendium Anatomico-Economicum." De Animâ Medicâ Prælectio. 4to. Lond., 1750. To the second edition of which, in 1775, he added a dissertation "De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Homine nato et non nato." The Petition of the Unborn Babes to the Censors of the Royal College of Physicians. 4to. Lond. 1751. PELHAM JOHNSTON, M.D., was born in York, and was the son of Cudworth Johnston, M.D., a distinguished physician of that city, who died in 1692, by his wife Margaret, a daughter of John Pelham, of Hull. He was educated at Sedburgh school, and on the 2nd May, 1700, being then nineteen years of age, was admitted a sizar of St. John's college, Cambridge. He proceeded M.B. 1711; M.D. 26th April, 1728; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1731; and a Fellow 30th September, 1732. He died at Westminster, 10th August, 1765. ABRAHAM HALL, M.D. was born in Yorkshire, and, after a good preliminary education, was entered at Trinity college, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded M.B. 1725, M.D. 1728. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1731, "At arterias nunquam non comitantur nervi, qui surculos suos in earundem tunicas immittunt, quorum sensu peculiari sanguinis stimulus persentiscitur, pulsus moderamen fit, humorum in vasa, justa fit distributio, succorum utilium confectioni et secretioni, inutilium autem expulsioni prospicitur." Franci Nichollsii Vita scriptore Tho. Lawrence, p. 18. and a Fellow 30th September, 1732; was Censor in 1734 and 1745, and was named an Elect 27th February, 1748-9. Dr. Hall was physician to St. Thomas's hospital, and to the Charterhouse: the former appointment he resigned in 1749, but he continued to hold the latter until his death, which took place at his official residence in Charterhouse-square, 5th February, 1751. JAMES SHERARD, M.D., was the son of George Sherard, of Bushby, in Leicestershire, and was born in 1666. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' school, and in February, 1681-2, was apprenticed to Mr. Charles Watts, an apothecary, who, shortly before, had been appointed to the care and management of the Botanical garden at Chelsea, a circumstance which must have given his apprentice the opportunity of cultivating a taste for botany, and no doubt laid the foundation of his future excellence in that science. He practised for many years as an apothecary, in Mark-lane, and accumulated an ample fortune. He was a man of extensive attainments, an accomplished musician, and an excellent botanist; and at his country house at Eltham, in Kent, he had a good garden, richly stocked with exotic plants. His brother, William Sherard, D.C.L., fellow of St. John's college, Oxford, who had been English consul at Smyrna, was scarcely less eminent as a botanist. He cultivated an extensive garden at his country house near Smyrna, which he enriched with the rarer products of Natolia and Greece, and there began to form his celebrated herbarium, which eventually comprised 12,000 species. He died in 1728, and bequeathed to the university of Oxford his library, herbarium, and 3,000l. for the endowment of a professorship of botany, directing that the nomination should for ever be in the gift of the College of Physicians of London. To James Sherard devolved the office of carrying into effect his brother's bequest; on the completion of which, the university of Oxford conferred upon him the degree of doctor of medicine, by diploma, 2nd July, 1731. He had then for several years retired from the business of an apothecary, and had withdrawn to Eltham. The College of Physicians, to mark their sense of the patronage vested in them as the electors of the Oxford professorship, on the recommendation of their President, Sir Hans Sloane, agreed to admit him to the Fellowship without examination, and without the payment of fees. The proposition was submitted to the College, 26th June, 1732, and Dr. James Sherard was admitted a Fellow at the next Comitia, 30th September, 1732. He continued to reside at Eltham, where he pursued his favourite occupation-the cultivation of valuable and rare plants-a curious catalogue of which was published by Dillenius in 1732, under the title, "Hortus Elthamensis, sive Plantarum Rariarum quas in Horto suo Elthami in Cantio colligit vir ornatissimus et præstantissimus Jac. Sherard, M.D. Reg. Soc. et Coll. Med. Lond. Soc.," &c., &c. Dr. Sherard died, sine prole, 12th February, 1737-8, leaving behind him 150,000l. He was buried in the church of Evington, near Leicester, where he possessed much property. A marble tablet, with the following epitaph, was erected by his widow in the chancel M.S. JACOBI SHERARD, M.D. Colleg. Medic. Lond. et Soc. Reg. Soc. in Rerum naturalium, Botanices imprimis, scientia et ne quid ad oblectandos amicos deesset He practised EDMUND WATSON, M.D., was a doctor of medicine, but of what university is not recorded. at Stockport, Cheshire, and was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College 30th April, 1733. His library was sold at auction, by Leacroft, in 1776. JOHN COLLET, M.D., was born in London, and on the 3rd September, 1729, being then twenty years of age, was entered on the physic line at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine in 1731 (D.M.I. de Peste, 4to.). He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 6th July, 1733, and settling at Newbury, practised there with distinguished reputation for nearly half a century. He died, universally regretted, on the 12th May, 1780. Dr. Collet was a dissenter, and his funeral sermon was preached in a Presbyterian chapel in Newbury. THOMAS WHITE, of Manchester, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th July, 1733. JOHN CRESSWELL, of Edmonton, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College on the 27th of September, 1733. CHARLES ASHENDEN was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 19th October, 1733. He practised at Durham. HUGH OWEN, M.D., was educated at Leyden, where on the 26th September, 1730, in the rectorship of Boerhaave, he was entered on the physic line, being then twenty-three years of age. He graduated doctor of medicine at Rheims 17th October, 1733, and was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 27th February, 1733-4. He practised in Merionethshire. JOHN EATON, M.D., a native of Cheshire, and a doctor of medicine of Aberdeen, of 12th June, 1727, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 8th April, 1734. Dr. Eaton was elected physician to the Middlesex hospital 6th July, 1749, and resigned that office 4th July, 1751. He died in 1770. WILLIAM MUSHEL MAYNARD, of Wigan, was admitted VOL. II. K . an Extra-Licentiate of the College 25th July, 1734. He died in May, 1737. BROWNE LANGRISH, M.D.-Of the birthplace, parentage, or education of this excellent practical physician, 1 can recover no particulars. He was certainly practising as a surgeon at Petersfield, in Hampshire, in 1733, when his Essay on Muscular Motion was published. He was still there on the 25th July, 1734, when he was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and began to practise as a physician. He subsequently removed from Petersfield to Winchester or Basingstoke (I am not sure which), and died at the last-named town 12th November, 1759. Dr. Langrish was elected a fellow of the Royal Society 16th May, 1734. From his own original experiments detailed in one of the works mentioned below, with the Aqua Lauro-Cerasi he saw reason to infer that it might be beneficial in the treatment of disease. He may, therefore, be credited with having in reality suggested the employment of prussic acid as a remedy. He was the author of A New Essay on Muscular Motion, founded on Experiments, Observations, and the Newtonian Philosophy. 8vo. Lond. 1733. The Modern Theory and Practice of Physick, wherein the antecedent Causes of Diseases; the rise of the most Usual Symptoms incident to them; and the true Methods of Cure are explained. 8vo. Lond. 1735. Physical Experiments upon Brutes to discover a Method of dissolving Stone in the Bladder by Injections; to which is added a Course of Experiments with the Lauro-Cerasus; on Fumes of Sulphur, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1746. Plain Directions in regard to the Small Pox. 4to. Lond. 1758. FRANCIS DOUCE, M.D., was bred a surgeon. Having been disfranchised of the company of Barber Surgeons, he was, on the 31st March, 1735, admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He was created doctor of medicine by the university of Aberdeen 15th May, 1750, and died at Hackney 16th September, 1760, aged eighty-four. His portrait, on horseback, æt. seventy |