EASTON. J. Kay del. et sc. 1781. Surgeon to the 35th Regiment. EDWARDS, THOMAS. S. Roache pinx. H. Houslon sc. 1791. Surgeon in Dublin. ELDRIDGE. T. Hilliard sc. ad vivum. The preparer of Friars Balsam. Biography must lament that his name and occupation only are known. ELLIOT, Sir THOMAS. F. Bartolozzi sc. 1794. From an original drawing by Holbein in his Majesty's Collection. Flourished in the fifteenth century, and was a friend with all the learned men in the time of Henry VIII. He wrote the "Castell of Health," 4to. 1539; and "Banquet of Sapience," 8vo. 1557. ENT, GEORGE, M. D. F.R.S. Born 1604. R. White sc. Died 1689. President of the College of Physicians, and one of the first members of the Royal Society. He distinguished himself by writing an apology in Latin for Dr. Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood, in opposition to Æmilius Parisanus. In the same book are some judicious observations on the operation of purgative medicines. He was au I thor of several other pieces, some of which are in the Philosophical Transactions. Glanvile, speaking in his "Plus Ultra" of the modern improvements in anatomy, numbers Sir George Ent, Dr. Glisson, and Dr. Willis, with the most celebrated discoverers in that most useful science. The two former were amongst the first members of the Royal Society. ERHARDUS, GEORGIUS, M.D. Hanbury. M. B. sc. ETMULLER, MICHAEL ERNST. Died 1732. Son of a Physician of the same name who died 1682. Hutchinson's Biog. EWEN, Dr. "Ars Patet Omuibus." EVERARD, Dr. In his study, smoking his pipe; a book fore him; 12mo. open be Dr. Everard had a higher opinion of the virtues of tobacco, both in the prevention and cure of diseases, than even Dr. Ralph Thorius had. He was author of a book entitled "Panacea, or a Universal Medicine, being a Discovery of the wonderful Virtues of Tobacco," 1659, 8vo. Anno 1650. "I supped in the City with my Lady Cath. Scott at Mr. Dubois', where was a gentleman call'd Everard, that was a very great Chymist." Evelyn's Journal, vol. I. p. 246. FABRICIUS, WILLIAM. A Surgeon, born near Cologne, who became a Physician at Berne, where he died 1634, aged 74. He wrote tracts on gangrene and sphacelus, on burns, on gun-shot wounds, on lithotomy, six centuries of observations and cures, in 4to. FABRICIUS, AQUAPENDENTE. He gained the appellation of the father of modern surgery, and was honored by the Senate of Venice with the Order of St. Mark, and an annual pension of a thousand crowns. He had a cabinet set apart for presents which he received instead of fees, with this inscription: "Lucri neglecti lucrum." He first observed the tubular structure of those appendages, formerly called the horns of the uterus, and by this discovery laid a foundation for the theory of oviparous generation. Fallopius was one day consulted by an hypocondriac patient: he heard him calmly for some time, and then exclaimed from Terence, "Otio abundas Antipho;" Sir, you are really too idle! Fernelius has a high claim to distinction amongst the institutors of rational practice; though his system of pathology, which he had the satisfaction of seeing established over most parts of Europe, be forgotten. FERREIN, ANTOINE, M. D.. Born 1693. La Physique à ses yeux fait briller son flambeau : Contre la Parque et le fatal Ciseau, Il arrache à l'erreur son dangereux bandeau, FERRIAR, JOHN, M. D. Died 1815. Physician to the Manchester Infirmary, author of "Medical Histories and Reflections," and several excellent papers in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Manchester. Nature's warm advocate this print would shew; The Prisoner's refuge and the Soldier's friend. FLOYER, Sir JOHN. Died 1734. Born 1649. Sir John was the author of many medical works, and was one of the first to count the pulsations of the arteries; for although the pulse had been the subject of observation from ancient times, the number of beats in a given time had not been attended to. He practised at Lichfield, and it was by his advice that Dr. Johnson, when an infant, was sent up to London to be touched by Queen Anne for the Evil. |