wrote on health. Dr. Colin Mackenzie, of the Borough, was also an able man in his way, as a practitioner in midwifery. He wrote in the periodical publications of the day, and gave lectures, which were well attended. His collection of preparations was bought by Dr. Orme for one thousand guineas. He died in the Borough about 1773, aged 70, leaving £12,000 to his brother. MARCHETTIS, PETRI DE. G. Georgi sc. 1647. MARCQUIS, GULIELMUS. Chalmers. Ant. Van Dyck pinx. F. de Jode sc. Etat. 36, 1640. MARECHAL, GEORGE. Premier Chirurgien du Roi, Chev. de l'Ordre de A French Surgeon about 1590. He wrote "Paradoxes," in which some modern improvements were anticipated. MARTEN, JOHN. Died 1768. Vertue sc. Prefixed to his "Treatise on the Gout," 1723, 8vo. Mr. John Marten, Surgeon and adventurer, wrote on the Gout and Venereal Disease. rary as well as a chirurgical quack. He was a lite Swift, in his preface to the Bishop of Sarum's introduction, comparing his Lordship's method of setting off the edition of his works, says, it was "beneath any author above the size of Marten the Surgeon," who advertised "the seventh edition (many thousands of the former having been sold off in a small time) concerning secret diseases, &c." MARTINIERE, P. M. DE LA, M.D. Medecin et Operateur du Roy, 1671.. He made a voyage to Norway which he published. MATTHÆUS, CONRADUS, M. D. An eminent Physician, and Librarian to the British Museum. He was an early and active advocate for inoculation; and when there was a doubt entertained, that a person might have the small-pox this way a second time, tried it upon himself unknown to his family. He was a member of the medical club, with the Doctors, Parsons, Templeman, Fothergill, Watson, and others, which met every fortnight in St. Paul's Church-yard. MAURICEAU, FRANCISCUS. Boulogne pinx. Died 1709. Picart sc. He gave a new and scientific form to the Obste tric Art. Hutchinson. Chalmers. MAYERNE, THEODORUS TURQUETUS. Eq. aurat. Jacob. I. et Carol. I. Magnæ Britanniæ regum archietor. P. P. Rubens pinx. J. Simon sc. Baron of Albone. Died 1655. Ætat. 82. Sir Theodore Mayerne, a native of Geneva, is, perhaps, the only instance of a Physician who was retained in that character by four Kings; namely, Henry IV. of France, James I. of England, and the two Charles's. The library at the College of Physicians was partly given to that society by him, and partly by the Marquis of Dorchester. He was buried March 30, 1655. Athen. Oxon. v. I. p. 798. Vide J. de Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, v. V. p. 23, No. 52. MAYOW, JOHANNUS. Loggan del. Hutchinson. T. Caldwell sc. Died 1679. From an original drawing. This ingenious Physician, who was Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford, was author of many excellent works. Chalmers. MAYNWARING, EVERARD, M.D. Etat. 38, 1668. R. White sc. He was author of many works; his last was "Serious Cautions against excessive Drinking, with several Examples of God's severe Judgments upon notorious Drunkards, who have died suddenly." MEAD, RICHARD, M.D. Born 1673. Died 1754. Aikin. Hutchinson. Nichols's Lit. Anec. vol. I. 269. Leucoris alma tibi felicia sydera currant, MINSICHT, HADRIANUS. D. Diricksen. Hamburg sc. Est hic Mynsichtus, qui nunquam cernitur ulli, Cernit eum nisi ovans in Chymicâ arte chorus. |