ARCHER, EDWARD, M. D.

Pine pinx.

Kingsbury sc.

Forty-two years Physician to the Small Pox Hospital.

Died 1789.

Gent. Mag. 1789, p. 373. Beloe's Anec. Lit.

ARNAUD DE RONSIL, GEORGE.

A Surgeon of eminence in London, was a native of France, and a member of the Academy of Surgery at Paris. He published several works, particularly on Ruptures 1749, in two vols. "Observations on Aneurisms," 1760, and "Familiar Instructions on the Diseases of the Bladder," 1763. "A Discourse on the Importance of Anatomy," delivered at Surgeon's Hall, Jan. 21, 1767. His principal work appeared in 1768, entititled, "Memoires de Chirurgie, avec des Remarques sur l'état de la Medicine et de la Chirurgie en France et en Angleterre," two vols. 4to.

Died December 1757. Ætat 73.

He published the Navy Surgeon, and Voyages to

Africa.

Lysons, vol. II. 739.

Qu. Was this a descendant of Henry Atkins, Physician to James I. who, according to Lysons, vol. I. p. 117, purchased the manor of Clapham, for the sum of £6,000. which money is said to have been the produce of presents bestowed on him

by the King, after his return from Scotland, whither he had been sent to attend Charles I. then an infant, when dangerously ill of a fever?

"Who for Gouts, Rheumatisms, Palsey, and Convulsions, and all pains in any parts, exceedeth all men, both for safest and speediest cures," as appears by his book.

Noble, vol. I.

ATKINSON.

A respectable Apothecary in Pall Mall 1779.
Died 1802.

AVICENNA, ABOALIS.

A celebrated Physician among the Mahomedans, was born about the year 980.

A story is told of his discovering the concealed love of a young patient, similar to one related of Erasistratus, who made the like discovery in Antiochus, the son of Seleucus. He died in 1036.

A Private Print lithographed by Hullmandell. Master of the Apothecaries Company 1822. He was the second son of Mr. William Baker (a man of amiable character and manners, of great classical and mathematical learning, and more than 40 years master of an academy at Reading), and younger brother of Mr. William Baker, a learned printer of London, author of "Peregrinations of the Mind," &c. (of whom see Nichols's " Literary Anecdotes," vol. III. p. 716.) John Baker was born at Reading, 1748, and being destined to the practice of medicine, was apprenticed to an Apothecary in Salisbury Square, whom he succeeded in business in 1773, which he carried on with great respectability for 30 years. He retired from business in 1803, and is now resident at Hampstead.

He had a good deal of practice among the young wits and frequenters of the theatres, from whom he acquired a passion for the Muses, and an inclination to signalize himself in their service; in consequence of which he made two essays in the dramatic way, Sertorius, a Tragedy, 1679, 4to. Henry II. a Tragedy, 1693, 4to.

Coxeter attributes another play to this author, which, however, he says, he made a present, both of the reputation and the profit, to Mountfort the player, whom he attended when stabbed by Lord Mohun. It was entitled Edward III. 1691. He died in the year 1696, and lies buried in St. Paul's Covent Garden.

BAPTISTA, JOHAN.
Wood cut.

BARRATT, WILLIAM.

A native of Somersetshire, who settled at Bristol as a Surgeon, and for 20 years made a collection for the history of that city. The work was published in 4to. 1788, and the author died the next year. He was interested much in the Chattertonian controversy, as he was one of the earliest friends of that unfortunate youth.