[22] “In the front of this band stood forth Dr. John Woodward, physic professor at Gresham College, a man equally ill-bred, vain, and ill-natured; who, after being for some time apprentice to a linnen-draper, took it into his head to make a collection of shells and fossils, in order to pass upon the world for a philosopher; thence getting admission into a physician’s family, at length, by dint of interest, obtained a doctor’s degree.” Preface to the discourse on the small pox, &c. p. 8, &c.
[23] In a paper read before the royal society, Feb. 11, 1741-2, and published in Mr. Sutton’s account, page 41. He also presented a model of this invention made in copper to the royal society, which cost him 200l.
[24] Preface to the monita & præcepta medica, p. 1.
[25] Monita & præcepta, p. 62, and Stack’s translation of the same, p. 69.
[26] Our author’s disapprobation of this medicine and its favourers, is no less severely express in his treatise concerning the influence of the sun and moon upon human bodies, p. 100.
[27] Monita, &c. medica, and Stack’s translation, p. 174 and 197.
[28] Ad virum clarissimum Ric. Mead, M.D. Epistolæ, varias lithontripticum, Joannæ Stephens exhibendi methodos indicans. Auctore Davide Hartley, A.M. p. 3.
[29] Published in seven volumes folio 1733, by Samuel Buckley, under the sanction of an act of parliament.
