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

tutre; William Musgrave's Geta Brittanica, and William Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum. " The doctor of medicine is at home when wooing the muses. " In the seventeenth century, Antonides Vandergoes, a Dutch poet, wrote the celebrated River Y; in France, Peter Petit wrote his Coclrus; Claudius Quillet, his Calla- paedia; Paulmier, poems in Italian, French, and Spanish; Charles Spon, the Prognostics of Hippocrates, in hexa- meter verse. In England, Ralph Balthurst, his Latin Poems ; Samuel Garth, his Dispensary and Claremont. " In the eighteenth century, the poetical doctor acquired undying fame. In France, Quesnoy published his well- known popular poem on The Farm House, and Herris- sant an Ode to Printing. In Germany, Albert Haller wrote his Poem on the Alps ; and John Zimmerman his Soli- tude. In Holland, John Pechlan published a laudatory Ode to Tea; and Godfrey Bidloo a volume of Low Dutch Ballads. In Italy, Marchelli indited his Miscellaneous Poems. In England, Oliver Goldsmith wrote his Deserted Village ; Richard Blackmore, his Prince Arthur and Cre- ation; John Armstrong, Economy of Love and Art of Preserving Health; John Nott, Alonzo and Leonora; Mark Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination; Peter Tem- pleton, his Miscellaneous Poems; Bernard Mandeville, his Fables of the Bees ; George Crabbe, his Library and Village ; Erasmus Darwin, his Botanic Garden. In Scot- land, Thomas Brown wrote his Agnes and Paradise of Coquettes; James Granger, his Ode to Solitude. In America, John Osborn wrote his Whaling Song ; Lemuel Hopkins, his Cancer Quack, and Benjamin Church nu- merous scattered poems. " In the present century, in England, John Keats, a med-