BLACVOD, HENRI.

Médecin de la Faculté de Paris.

"Il étoit Philosophe, homme de Cour, Soldat, Médecin, Negociateur." He died 1634.

BLAGRAVE, JOSEPH.

Student in Physic and Astrology 1682.

BLAIR, PATRICK.

A Surgeon at Dundee, who first acquired reputation by his dissection of an Elephant. He was imprisoned for his attachment to the Stuarts in 1715, but upon his liberation came to London, and gained popularity on the sexes of the plants, published under the name of "Botanic Essays," &c.

Der. Hist. Phil. Trans. Biog. Univ. Rees's Enc.

BLIZARD, Sir WILLIAM, Knt. F.R.S. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal

College of Surgeons.

J. Opie pinx.

S. W. Reynolds sc.

He was Physician to the Elector of Brandenburgh, and the King of Prussia, who ennobled his family. Anatomy received many new lights from his dissections.

Hutchinson's Biog.

BONGOUT, ROBERT, M.D.

J. Collyer sc. 1770.

BONOUS, EPHRAIM.

Johan. Lyogus sc.

A Jew Doctor.

BONONIENS, GULIELMUS.

Born 1710.

J. G. Sciller sc.

BONTEROE, CORNELIUS.

G. P. Busch sc.

BORDE, ANDREW.

Who styled himself "Andreas Perforatus."

Author of "Breviary of Health," "Tales of the

men of Gotham, &c."

Hutchinson's Biog.

C. L. Duflos sc. 1743.

Chirurgus Nisocomii Parisiensis Primarius.

BRADLEY, THOMAS, M. D.

Medley pinx.

N. Branwhite sc.

Died in the Rules of the King's Bench, Dec. 1813, aged 62. He was a native of Worcester, where for some years he kept a mathematical school. He was then a Quaker, and having an inclination to medical studies, he was enabled to follow that pursuit. After taking his Doctor's degree at Edinburgh, he settled in Westminster; but being of retired habits, and quitting the society of his friends, his practice became limited, till at length he sunk into obscurity, and died in distress.

Gent. Mag. 1814.

BRADY, ROBERT, M.D.

Drawing in Water Colours by Harding.
Died 1700.

He was chosen representative for the University of Cambridge, in that parliament which met at Oxford.

Born 1500.

Hutchinson's Biog.

BRASSAVOLUS.

Wood cut.

Died 1555.

Physician to Francis I. Charles V. and Henry VIII.

of England.

Hutchinson's Biog.

BRIGGS, WILLIAM, M. D.

Faber sc.

Physician in Ordinary to King William III. and St. Thomas's Hospital. Died 1704.

Ames. Noble, vol. I. p. 227.

BRIGHT, TIMOTHY.

Physician and Divine.
Died 1615.

The work by which he is principally known is his "Treatise of Melancholy," 1586. He entertained very lofty ideas of the dignity of the medical cha"No one," he says, "should touch so holy a thing that hath not passed the whole discipline of liberal sciences, and washed himself pure and clean in the waters of wisdome and understanding."

racter.

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BROCKLESBY, RICHARD, M.D. F.R. S.

Copley pinx.
Born 1722.

Ridley sc.

Died 1797.

If from Brock you take the letter B,

Then Brock is Rock, and that is Brock-less-B.

BROMFIELD, WILLIAM.
Surgeon to his Majesty.

B. Vandergutcht pinx. J. R. Smith sc. 1777.
Fine Impression, from Mr. Bindley's Collection.

An eminent Physician, son of Sir Thomas Browne, born about 1642. He died Aug. 28, 1708, at Northfleet, an estate of his in Kent, which he bequeathed between the College and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in case of failure of issue in his son Dr. Thomas Browne, and his daughter Brigstock.

King Charles said of him, that “he was as learned as any of the College, and as well bred as any at Court."

The son Dr. Thomas died 1710.