have mostly some reference to health or diet, and he published a number of records of cases. Bibliography Hints for Restoring Animation, and for Preserving Mankind against Noxious Vapours, 3rd ed., London: Munk, 1783. Experimental Enquiry into Nature of the Cheltenham Water, Bath, 1785, 1788, etc. Cautions to the Heads of Families, in Three Essays, Bath and London: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1790. A New Enquiry into the Suspension of Vital Action in Cases of Drowning and Suffocation, London, 1795; Bath, 1795, etc. (prize essay). Essay on the Abuse of Spirituous Liquors, Bath, 1796. A Preservative Plan, or Hints for Preservation of Persons Exposed to Accidents which Suspend Vital Action, London, 1798. On the Nature of the Disease produced by Bite of a Mad Dog, Bath, 1799. On Preservation of Shipwrecked Mariners, London, 1799, in answer to prize questions of the Royal Humane Society. Some of these books are virtually repetitions of earlier ones; the fourth and sixth were translated into German: In Philosophical Transactions, volume LXIX, he wrote "On a Cure of St. Vitus's Dance by Electricity", and one other paper. He contributed seven papers to Memoirs of Medical Society of London, including "On the Epidemic Catarrh, or Influenza, at Northampton in 1775" (volume III). On Arteriotomy in Epilepsy, volume V, etc. Also memoirs in Medical Observations and Enquiries, volume III, 1767, and in Medical Commentaries, volume II. In Gentleman's Magazine, volume LXXXI, part I, page 367, he published a poem on the "Triumvirate of Worthies, Howard, Hawes, and Berchtold". References Attribution 1732 births 1813 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English medical writers 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers Fellows of the Royal Society Leiden University alumni People from Sedbergh