Life
fl.1775; physician, grad. M.D. in France, practised in Bath; removed to
London, 1764; wrote on hydrophobia; member of the Literary Club, with Burke and others, 1764; FRS,
1765; he was the father-in-law of Edmund Burke, who married his dg. Jane [qry: son of Thomas Nugent ?1700-1772, as infra] ODNB
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References
British Library holds An Essay on the Hydrophobia, to which is
prefixed the case of a person who was bit by a mad dog ... and was cured
(London 1753); French trans., [...] Essai sur l’hydrophobie [...]
traduction partielle ... analyse et commentaires (Toulouse 1887).
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