Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

more famous than those of Varsenius, Ives, Bougainville, Petit, Park, Carver, Kane, and Livingstone ? " In the domain of literature the doctor figures largely. The philosophic instinct of medical men is shown in the writings of Fludd, Fernel, Veethuysen, Goddard, Zwin- ger, Becker, Lining, Wood, Jurin, Coralli, Beccaria, Abercrombie, Galvani, Mesmer, McLean, and Bertholen. "As a charming miscellaneous writer, the doctor stands unrivaled. In the seventeenth century, Gabriel Naude published his Life of Louis XL and Bibliographia Polit- ica; Guy Patin wrote his Letters; William Petty, on Political Economy; Thomas Browne, his Religio Medici; and Edward Dickinson, his Delphi Phoenicizantes. " In the eighteenth century, Julian Freind's History of Physic, James Parsons' Affinity and Origin of the Human Languages. " The doctor in medicine is charming as a historical writer, as witness John Caius' History of Cambridge; John Pontamus' Danish History; Robert Brady's History of England; Alexander Russell's History of Allepo ; Edmund Berlace's History of Ireland; Bernard Connor's History of Poland; James Spons' History of Geneva; Oliver Goldsmith's Histories of England, Greece, and Rome; Tobias Smollet's History of England; Mathias Bell's History of Hungary; Englebert Koempher's His- tory of Japan; Hugh Williamson's History of North Carolina; David Ramsey's History of South Carolina and the United States, Charles Bottas' History of Italy, and John W. Draper's History American Civil War. "As a writer on antiquities, we notice the doctors' con- tributions in Humphrey Lhwyd's Armentaria Romano and De Mona Druidum Insular, Antiquitatae suae Resti-