have observed cases where women had become pregnant without having had any kind of sexual relations with a man. The "paper war" of 1752–1753 Henry Fielding attacked him in The Covent Garden Journal, Christopher Smart wrote a mock-epic, The Hilliad, against him, and David Garrick replied to his strictures against him by two epigrams, one of which runs: "For physics and farces, his equal there scarce is; His farces are physic, his physic a farce is." He had other literary passages-at-arms with John Rich, who accused him of plagiarising his Orpheus, also with Samuel Foote and Henry Woodward. Selected publications Hill, John (1750), Lucine sine concubitu: a letter addressed to the Royal Society. Hill, John (1750), A Dissertation on Royal Societies. Hill, John (1751), Review of the Works of the Royal Society of London. Hill, John [attributed] (1751), The Oeconomy of Human Life 2. Hill, John (1751), A History of the Materia Medica Hill, John (1751–1753), "The Inspector" [daily column], London Advertiser and Literary Gazette: Much of Hill's part in the Paper War of 1752–1753 was carried out in this column. Hill, John (1752), The Impertinent Hill, John (1752), Letters from the Inspector to a Lady with the genuine Answers. Hill, John in: Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Supplement. 1753 various articles Hill, John (1754), Urania: Or, a Complete View of the Heavens; Containing the Ancient and Modern Astronomy, in Form of a Dictionary: Illustrated with a Great Number of Figures ... A Work Intended for General Use, Intelligible to All Capacities, and Calculated for Entertainment as Well as Instruction. Hill, John (1755), The useful family herbal. Reprinted as Hill, John (1810), The Family Herbal. Hill, John (1755), Thoughts concerning God and Nature. Hill, John (1756–1757), The British Herbal. Hill, John (1757), Thomas Hale: Eden, or, A compleat body of gardening (editor) Hill, John (1758), Outlines of a System of vegetable generation. Hill, John (1759), The Virtues of Honey in Preventing Many of the Worst Disorders. Hill, John (1759–1775), The Vegetable System (26 volumes of text in folio). Vol. I (1759) (Octavo edition) Vol. II Part I (1761) Vol. II, Part II (1761) Vol. III (1761) Vol. IV (1762) Vol. V (1763) Hill, John (1770), The Construction of Timber from its Early Growth. Hill, John (1770–2), Virtues of British Herbs. No. 1 (1770) 4th ed., with additions (1771) 1772 edition Hill, John (1773), A decade of