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See also:FREIND, See also:JOHN (1675-1728) , See also:English physician, younger See also:brother of See also:Robert Freind (1667-1751), headmaster of See also:Westminster school, was See also:born in 1675 at Croton in See also:Northamptonshire. He made See also:great progress in classical knowledge under See also:Richard See also:Busby at Westminster, and at See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, under See also:Dean See also:Aldrich, and while still very See also:young, produced, along with See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Foulkes, an excellent edition of the speeches of Aeschinesand See also:Demosthenes on the affair of Ctesiphbn. After this he began the study of See also:medicine, and having proved his scientific attainments by various See also:treatises was appointed a lecturer on See also:chemistry at Oxford in 1704. In the following See also:year he accompanied the English See also:army, under the See also:earl of See also:Peterborough, into See also:Spain, and on returning See also:home in 1707, wrote an See also:account of the expedition, which attained great popularity. Two years later he published his Prelectiones chimicae, which he dedicated to See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton. Shortly after his return in 1713 from See also:Flanders, whither he had accompanied the See also:British troops, he took up his See also:residence in See also:London, where he soon obtained a great reputation as a physician. In 1716 he became See also:fellow of the See also:college of physicians, of which he was chosen one of the censors in 1718, and Harveian orator in 1720. In 1722 he entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Launceston in See also:Cornwall, but, being suspected of favouring the cause of the exiled Stuarts, he spent See also:half of that year in the See also:Tower. During his imprisonment he conceived the See also:plan of his most important See also:work, The See also:History of Physic, of which the first See also:part .appeared in 1725, and the second in the following year. In the latter year he was appointed physician to See also:Queen See also:Caroline, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he held till his See also:death on the 26th of See also:July 1728.
A See also:complete edition of his Latin See also:works, with a Latin See also:translation of the History of Physic, edited by Dr John See also:Wigan, was published in London in 1732.
End of Article: FREIND, JOHN (1675-1728)
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