he had at length the satisfaction of detecting her. The woman held out, till her courage was shaken by a threat to perform a dangerous operation upon her, which threat was backed by another from a magistrate, that she should be sent to prison. She then confessed the fraud, and the farce terminated by the Godalming miracle-monger being committed to Tothill Fields prison.* Sir Richard published in 1726 his

Exact Diary of what was observed during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended Rabbit Breeder, from November 28th to December 7th following; together with an Account of the Confession of the Fraud.

He was the author also of

Artis Obstetrica Compendium, tam theoriam quam praxin spectans. 4to. Lond. 1739.

This was afterwards newly arranged and republished, in 1756, under the title "Aphorismata Medica," 12mo.

An Abstract of Midwifery, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. 8vo. Lond. 1744.

The Plague no Contagious Disorder, published anonymously in 1744; but reprinted in 1758, with alterations and his name, under the title of "A Discourse concerning the Plague and Pestilential Fevers plainly proving that the general productive causes of all Plagues or Pestilence are from some fault in the Air, or from ill and unwholesome Diet."

A Treatise on the Symptoms, Nature, Causes, and Cure of the Febricula, or Little Fever. 8vo. Lond. 1750.

JOHN ARNOLD, M.D.-A native of Devonshire, and a doctor of medicine of Padua, of 17th January, 1715; was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 13th December, 1720. He practised at Exeter.

HENRY BLAKEY, of Lancashire was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th January, 1720-1.

SAMUEL TEAKE was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of

* Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity. 2nd ed. Lond. 1840. p

the College of Physicians 21st February, 1720-1. He practised in Sussex.

EDWARD STROTHER, M.D.-A Northumbrian, and a doctor of medicine of Utrecht of 8th May, 1720 (D.M.I. de Vi Cordis Motrice 4to. Traj. ad Rhenam, 1720); was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 3rd April, 1721. He died 13th April, 1737, and was the author of

An Essay on Fevers. 8vo. Lond. 1716.

Euodia; or a Discourse of Causes and Cures. 8vo. Lond. 1718. Pharmacopoeia Practica, sive Præscriptorum Syndrome. 12mo. Lond. 1719.

Experienced Measures how to manage the Small Pox, with the proper method in the Plague. 8vo. Lond. 1721.

Upon the Engraftment of the Small Pox. 8vo. Lond. 1722. An Essay on Sickness and Health. 8vo. Lond. 1725. Materia Medica; or, a New Description of the Virtues and Effects of Drugs and Simple Medicines now in use. Translated from the Latin of P. Harman. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1727. Practical Observations on the Epidemical Fever: added is a remarkable History of a Spotted Fever. 8vo. Lond. 1729.

Prælectiones Pharmacomathicæ et Medico-practica; or, Lectures on the Rationale of Medicines. 2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1732.

JOHN PURCELL, M.D.-A native of Shropshire, and a doctor of medicine of Montpelier, of 29th May, 1699; was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 3rd April, 1721. He died 19th December, 1730, and was the author of

A Treatise of Vapours or Hysterick Fits. 8vo. Lond. 1707.
A Treatise of the Cholick. 8vo. Lond. 1714.

GEORGE LOCK was the son of Mr. William Lock, bailiff of the duke of Somerset, the then owner of Alnwick Castle. He was born at Alnwick, and baptised there 19th September, 1693. He was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 15th May, 1721, and practised in his native town.

JAMES DOUGLAS, M.D.-This excellent anatomist was born in Scotland in 1675; but of his general or profes

sional education little is known. He settled in London in the early part of the 18th century, and speedily attained to high reputation as an anatomist and obstetrician. He obtained his degree of doctor of medicine at the university of Rheims; and was admitted an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1721. He had been admitted a fellow of the Royal Society, 4th December, 1706, and contributed many important papers to the "Philosophical Transactions." Cheselden, in the preface to his "Anatomy of the Human Body," acknowledges his obligations to our physician; and Haller, who visited him in London, speaks in praise of his works and anatomical preparations. Dr. Douglas was one of the first to demonstrate, from the anatomy of the parts, that the high operation for stone might be safely performed. He died at his house in Red Lionsquare in April, 1742, and was buried at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the 9th. "Vir eruditus et solers," writes Haller,* "diligentissimus incisor, cujus benignum animum juvenis expertus, senex laudo." In addition to his reputation as an anatomist, and his practical skill as an accoucheur, he had the character of an accomplished botanist, and of a man of great literary information. Pope mentions him in the Dunciad thus:

"To prove me, Goddess! clear of all design,
Bid me with Pollio sup, as well as dine:
There all the learn'd shall at the labour stand
And Douglas lend his soft obstetric hand."

In his note to this passage, Pope describes Dr. Douglas as a physician of great learning and no less taste; above all, curious in what related to Horace, of whom he collected every edition, translation, and comment, to the number of several hundred volumes. Dr. Douglas was, perhaps, unduly sensitive, and was certainly, in some instances, a peevish and captious critic. The following is (I believe) a complete list of his published works:

Bibliotheca Anatomica, vol. ii, p. 31.

Myographiæ Comparata Specimen; or a Comparative Description of all the Muscles in a Man and in a Quadruped; added is an Account of the Muscles peculiar to a Woman. 8vo. Lond. 1707. This work, " egregius labor, etsi juventutis opus," says Haller, was translated into Latin by J. F. Schrieber, and published at Leyden in 1729. A second edition of the original appeared at Edinburgh in 1750, and a third

in 1763.

Bibliographie Anatomica Specimen, sive Catalogus omnium pene Auctorum qui ab Hippocrate ad Harveium, rem Anatomicam ex professo vel obiter scriptis illustrarunt, Opera singulorum et Inventa juxta temporum seriem complectens. 8vo. Lond. 1715.

The History of the Lateral Operation for the Stone. 4to. Lond. 1726. Reprinted in 1731, with an Appendix, containing Mr. Cheselden's present method.

An Advertisement occasioned by some passages in Sir R. Manningham's Diary, lately published. 8vo. Lond. 1726.

A Description of the Peritoneum, and of the Membrana Cellularis, which is on its outside. 4to. Lond. 1730.

Lilium Sarniense; or a Description of the Guernsey Lily; to which is added the Botanical Dissection of the Coffee Berry. Folio. Lond. 1725.

ROBERT TAYLOR, A.M.-A master of arts of Glasgow, practising at Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire; was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1721.

THOMAS LOVELL, of Plymouth, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 25th September, 1721.

THOMAS DOVER, M.B.-This extraordinary character was a native of Warwickshire, and a bachelor of medicine of Cambridge of 1687.* He was an acquaintance and friend, probably a pupil, of the great Sydenham, in whose house he resided. After taking his degree he settled at Bristol, and, having made money there, joined with some merchants of that city in fitting out two

So I was informed by the late Mr. C. H. Cooper, the learned author of the Athena Cantabrigienses. The degree is not given in the Graduati Cantabrig.

privateers for the South Seas, in one of which, the "Duke," he himself sailed from Bristol 2nd August, 1708. On the passage out they touched at the island of Juan Fernandez, where Dover, on the 2nd February, 1708-9, found Alexander Selkirk, who had been alone on the island for four years and four months, and whom Dover brought away in the "Duke." In the April following Dover took Guiaquil, a city or town of Peru, by storm. In December, 1709, the two privateers took a large and valuable prize-a ship of 20 guns and 190 meninto which Dover removed from the "Duke," taking Alexander Selkirk with him as master, and finally reaching England in October, 1711.* On Dover's return to England he resumed practice at Bristol, and from the number of patients he says he visited each day during an epidemic fever, must have obtained the confidence of the inhabitants of that city. Sometime about 1721 he settled in London; and on the 30th September of that year was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He resided in Cecil-street, Strand, where he continued for some years, but in the latter part of 1728 he returned to Gloucestershire (to what part is not stated in his work), and there remained for four or five years, when he finally settled in London, and fixed his abode in Lombard-street, but attended regularly at the Jerusalem coffee-house, to which he had his letters addressed, and where he would seem to have received most of his patients. In 1736 he moved westward, to Arundelstreet, Strand, where he probably died in the latter part of 1741, or beginning of 1742, as his name disappears from the College list of the last-named year. His "Ancient Physician's Legacy to his Country" is well known. It was a work very popular out of the profession, and in the course of a few years ran through a large number of editions. To Dr. Dover we are indebted

* A Cruising Voyage round the World. First to the South Sea, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope; begun in 1708 and finished in 1711. By Captain Woodes Rogers. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Lond. 1718.