[3] One of the physicians to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He died August 6, 1754. His merits were thus celebrated by Dr. Theobald, a contemporary physician:
"O raro merito quem juncta scientia dudum
Illustrem sacris medico stellam addidit orbi
Auspiciis, pura nunquam non luce corusce!
Utcunque incolumem virtutum aversa tueri
Gens humana solet, non ni post fata corona
Donandam merita, potitus melioribus astris,
Invidia major, tu præsens alter haberis
Hippocrates, pleno jam nunc cumulatus honore.
Te seu, corporea tandem compage soluta,
Accipiet, doctis clarescentem artibus, alta
Coi sphæra senis; seu tu venerabilis aureo
Romani Celsi rite effulgebis in orbe;
O sit adhuc tarda illa dies, sit tarda, precamur,
Illa dies, nostris et multum ferior annis,
Cum tua mens, membris seducta fluentibus, almas
Advolet, angelicis immixta cohortibus, arces!
Hic potius Musas, thematis dulcedine captas,
Delecta, atque audi laudes vel Apolline dignas."
[4] A celebrated anatomist, physician, and man-midwife, to whose estate the present Gascoyne family succeeded, and whose surname has been given as a Christian name to two of them.
[5] Some indifferent verses on this event were printed in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1736, p. 484.
[6] General Churchill was "the primary puffer of Ward's pill at court;" and Lord Chief Baron Reynolds soon after published "its miraculous effects on a maid servant," as I learn by some doggrel verses of Sir William Browne, addressed to "Dr. Ward, a Quack, of merry memory," under the title of "The Pill-Plot. On The Daily Courant's miraculous Discovery, upon the ever-memorable 28th day of November 1734, from the Doctor himself being a Papist, and distributing his Pills to the poor gratis, by the hands of the Lady Gage also a Papist, that the Pill must be beyond all doubt a deep-laid Plot, to introduce popery."
[7] "This alludes to some surprizing cures she performed before Sir Hans Sloane at The Grecian Coffee-house (where she came once a week from Epsom in her chariot with four horses): viz. a man of Wardour-street, whose back had been broke nine years, and stuck out two inches; a niece of Sir Hans Sloane in the like condition; and a gentleman who went with one shoe heel six inches high, having been lame twenty years of his hip and knee, whom she set strait, and brought his leg down even with the other." Gent. Mag. 1756, p. 617.
[8] A chief betokeneth a senator, or honourable personage borrowed from the Greeks, and is a word signifying a head; and as the head is the chief part of a man, so the chief in the escutcheon should be a reward of such only whose high merits have procured them chief place, esteem, or love amongst men.
[9] The bearing of clouds in armes (saith Upton) doth import some excellencie.
[10] Originally printed docter, but afterwards altered in this print.