About the latter physician to the Tower of London. 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, the physician to the Tower, is not to be confounded, as has hitherto been done, and was so by me in the former edition, with another person of his name, probably his father, Gideon Harvey, M.D., the author of the "Conclave of Physicians,' and many other small books of questionable character, who was not of our London College. This Gideon Harvey, M.D., senior, was born about 1637, and educated in the Low Countries, where he acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek. He was admitted at Exeter college, Oxford, but left that university without aking a degree. Going thence to Leyden, where I meet with him in January, 1657, he studied under Vander Linden, Vanhorne, and Vorstius, all teachers of acknowledged excellence. He was taught chemistry by a German then residing at Leyden, and there also he learned the practical part of surgery and the business of an apothecary. After this he visited France, and on his return to Holland was appointed physician in ordinary to king Charles II, then in exile. On the title page of one of his books, "A New Discourse of the Small Pox and Malignant Fevers," 16mo., Lond., 1685, he styles himself, "in the time of the Rebellion, Fellow of the College of Physicians at the Hague." Harvey subsequently returned to England, and was shortly sent to Flanders, as physician to the English army there; but getting tired of his appointment he resigned his commission, travelled through Germany into Italy, spent some time at Padua, Bologna, and Rome, and then returned through Switzerland and Holland to England. He had probably taken a doctor's degree at Leyden, ere leaving that university. The date of his death thus far escapes me. His books, which were numerous, 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 SIR DAVID HAMILTON, M.D., was a native of Scotland. On the 30th October, 1683, being then twenty years of age, he entered on the physic line at Leyden. He graduated doctor of medicine in the university of Paris (D.M.I. de Passione Hysterica, 4to. 1686), and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 9th April, 1688. On the 25th June, 1703, being then physician in ordinary to the queen, he was admitted a Fellow of the College. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 5th May, 1708. Sir David Hamilton was the leading practitioner of midwifery in the metropolis, and is said to have amassed in the exercise of his profession a fortune of 80,000l., all of which was lost in one year, 1720, in the South Sea 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, &c. 12mo. Lond. 1683. The Family Physician and the House Apothecary. 18mo. Lond. 1676. A Memorable Case of a Nobleman; moreover the Art of Curing the most dangerous of Wounds by the first Intention. 8vo. Lond. 1685. The Art of Curing Diseases by Expectation. 12mo. Lond. 1689. The Vanities of Philosophy and Physic. 3rd edit. 8vo. Lond. 1702. A Treatise of the Small Pox and Measles. 12mo. Lond. 1696. His portrait, probably at Exeter college, Oxford, was engraved by Pierre Phillippe. scheme.* "He was," says Daniel Turner, "better qualified for the chirurgical operation of delivery than the medical province of prescription." He lived in Bow-lane, and died 28th August, 1721, being then physician to the princess of Wales. He was the author of Tractatus duplex; prior de Praxeos Regulis; alter de Febre Miliari. 8vo. Lond. 1710; and of some pamphlets of a religious tendency. In "The Private Christian's Witness to the Truth of Christianity," he represents it as the matter of his frequent experience, that future events were pointed out to him in the course of his praying, in such a manner that he could judge as to the success he should have in his undertakings. ROGER KENYON, A.B., was the son of Edward Kenyon, rector of Prestwich, in Lancashire. He was educated at Stockport school, was admitted a pensioner of St. John's college, Cambridge, 10th April, 1682, commenced A.B. 1685, and was elected a fellow of his college. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1703. He was a non-juror and died at St. Germains. He was instrumental in the publication of Charles Leslie's works in 2 vols. folio, 1721. ROBERT NASMYTH was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 11th February, 1703-4. He practised at Great Yarmouth. * Houston's Memoirs of his own Lifetime. 8vo. Lond. 1653, p. 82. "Vitæ integritate spectabilis, literis doctus, et in arte suâ peritus extitit David Hamilton, Medicus Annæ reginæ. Vir quam maximè benignus, pauperes ægrotos sæpe visitavit, et non solum remedia præscripsit, sed quidquid, arte suâ, die Dominicâ acquisivit iis liberaliter largitus est; facinus eo magis laude dignum, quod non gloriose sed quam privatim, actum sit." Oratio Harveiana habita 18 Octobris, 1775, Auctore Donaldo Monro, M.D. EDMUND FROST, a practitioner at Hunston, in Suffolk, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 26th April, 1704. THOMAS HODGSON was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 16th March, 1704-5. He practised at Lancaster. JOHN SHEPPARD was admitted an Extra-Licentiate 16th April, 1705. He practised at Framlingham, in Suffolk. THOMAS WHALLEY was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 20th June, 1705. He was then practising with much repute at Lewes. TOBIAS WHARTON, of Stockton, in the county of Durham, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate 10th August, 1705. BENJAMIN WALLER, of Newport Pagnell, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physi cians 12th December, 1705. JOHN TURNER, of Enfield, was admitted an ExtraLicentiate of the College 25th March, 1706. EDWARD BODENHAM, of Benenden, Kent, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate 14th June, 1706. JAMES BAYLES was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 24th June, 1706. He practised at Bideford, North Devon. JOHN ADDENBROOKE, M.D.-A native of Staffordshire, was educated at Catherine hall, Cambridge, of which house he was a fellow. He proceeded A.B. 1701; A.M. 1705; and on the 3rd September, 1706, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians, being represented as then of West Bromwich, in his native county. He graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1712, and would seem to have practised his faculty for some years at Cambridge; but of his professional career little is known. He died on the 7th June, 1719, aged thirty-nine; and by his will bequeathed about four thousand pounds" to erect and maintain a small physical hospital" at Cambridge, now known as Addenbrooke's hospital. The sum left by Dr. Addenbrooke being found insufficient for its support, an Act of Parliament was obtained in the year 1766, for making it a general hospital; and in October of the same year it was opened for the reception of patients, since which it has been chiefly supported by voluntary contributions. It was, however, further endowed in 1813 by Mr. John Bowtell, a bookseller and stationer in Cambridge, who bequeathed to the institution 7,000l. Three per cent. consolidated bank annuities, a portion of which was appropriated to the addition of two wings. Dr. Addenbrooke is commemorated by the following inscription in the chapel of Catherine hall : M. S. JOHANNIS ADDENBROOKE, M.D. de Swinford Regis in Comitatu Staffordiæ, Obiit 7m die Junii An° Dom: 1719. Et: 39. JAMES DRAKE, M.D., was born at Cambridge, in 1667. He was educated at Caius college, and as a member of that house proceeded M.B. 1690, M.D. 1694. Settling in London, he was patronised by Sir Thomas Millington, and some other eminent physicians, and in 1701 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1698; and a Fellow 30th September, 1706. Dr. Drake was a man of warm feelings, and, preferring politics to physic, became a violent party writer. was concerned in 1697 in the publication of a pamphlet, entitled "Commendatory Verses upon the Author of prince Arthur and king Arthur;" and in 1702 he pub He |