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ARMSTRONG, JOHN (1709-1779)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOHN (1709-1779) , See also:

BRITISH

British physician and writer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born about 1709 at See also:

CASTLETOWN (Manx, Bully Cashtel)

Castletown, See also:

ROXBURGHSHIRE

Roxburghshire, where his See also:

FATHER

father was See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister. He graduated M.D. (1732) at See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University, and soon afterwards settled in See also:

LONDON

London, where he paid more See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to literature than to See also:

MEDICINE

medicine. He was, in 1746, appointed one of the physicians to the military See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital behind See also:

Buckingham See also:

House; and, in 176o, physician to the See also:

army in See also:

Germany, an See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment which he held till the See also:

peace of 1763, when he retired on See also:

HALF

half-pay. For many years he was closely associated with John Wilkes, but quarrelled with him in 1763. He died on the 7th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1779. Armstrong's first publication, an See also:

ANONYMOUS

anonymous one, entitled An See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay for Abridging the Study of Physic (1735), was a See also:

SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire on the See also:

IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of the apothecaries and medical men of his See also:

day. This was followed two years after by the See also:

ECONOMY

Economy of Love, a poem the indecency of which damaged his professional practice. In 1744 appeared his See also:

Art of Preserving See also:

HEALTH

Health, a very successful didactic poem, and the one See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production on which his See also:

LITERARY

literary reputation rests. His Miscellanies (1770) contains some shorter poems displaying considerable See also:

HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour.

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