Doctors of Samuel Johnson and his court / by James P. Warbasse.

  • James Peter Warbasse
Date:
1908
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    ingenious pliysician of London. He procured his degree from Trinity College, Oxford, and practiced at Birmingham, where he founded the General Hospital. He moved to London and enjoyed much success. He was Hunterian orator in 1790, and the founder of a social and literary club in London called the Eumelian Club (from ciimclias, though it was warmly contended that it should have had the Latin name and be called the Fraxiiieaii). I’krcivai. Pott (1749-1787), Surgeon of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, attended Johnson for .sarcocele with Cruikshank. He was one of the most eminent of London surgeons. He attained to eminence through his work on hernia, spinal disease, and diseases of the bones and joints. In 1771 he published his com- plete “Chirurgical Works.” Sir George Baker (1721-1809), M.D., F.R.C.P., a jiro- found scholar ami celebrated physician, was one of the orna- ments of his profe.ssion. He was a man of much classical learning, of a philo.sophical mind and sound judgment. He attained to eminence as a Lomlon jiractitioner, and had ac- corded to him all of the honors which his profession could give. He was physician to the Ouecn and to (icorge the 1 bird, and was created a baronet in 17/P- ver.sed in the whole literature of medicine from the remote.st anticiuity. Mis generosity and kindness endeared him to all. He was the author of medical treatises and some choice Latin verse. William Barrowby, M.D.. P.R.C.P.. a graduate of Ox- ford and a l-ondon ])ractitioncr. is mentioned by Boswell only to allow Dr. Johnson to relate the following anecdote of him: lie was very fund of swines Hesh. One day when he was eating it he said, that he wished he was a Jew, because then he should have the ])leasure of eating his favorite meat with the iileasure of sinning at the same time.” He died in 1751. Dr. Ricuaru Brocklesbv was born in Ireland in 1722. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and on the continent, and jiracticed in London with much succe.ss. Before settling down to practice he was physician to the British army for five years. He was the friend and physician of Johnson, of W ilkes, and of Edmund Burke. He was a man of great kindness and generosity. When Burke was in need of help. Dr. Brocklesby gave him the one thousand pounds for immediate use, which he had already beciucathed to him in his wdll. He contributed a number of papers on scientific subjects, and on “The Music