The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot ... By G. A. Aitken

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THE LIFE AND WORKS OK JOHN ARBUTHNOT AITKEN Honion HENRY FROWDE Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.C. Qtw $0*8 112 Fourth Avenue Collotype. Oxford University Press. John Arbuthnot, M.D THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN ARBUTHNOT M.D., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS BY GEORGE A. AITKEN I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour. Dr. Johnson Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS ©jtforo PRINTED at the clarendon PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS PACE Preface vii Life of Dr. Arbuthnot I Appendices : — I. Genealogical Notes . . . . . . 171 II. Bibliography . . . . . . .176 "Works of Dr. Arbuthnot The History of John Bull . . . . .191 The Art of Political Lying . . . . .291 Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus .... 305 An Essay concerning the Origin of Sciences . 360 Virgilius Eestauratus ...... 369 The Humble Petition of the Colliers . . -375 Beasons humbly offered by the Company of Upholders . . . . . . . -379 Mr. John Ginglicutt's Treatise .... 382 A Sermon Preached at Edinburgh . . . 392 An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning ........ 409 Gnothi seauton . . . . . . .436 Doubtful Works attributed to Dr. Arbuthnot : — Notes and Memorandums of the six days preceding the Death of a late Eight Eeverend . . -445 The Sickness and Death of Dr. Woodward . . .464 It cannot rain but it pours . . . . . .471 The most wonderful Wonder . . . . -475 An Account of the State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput 483 Critical Eemarks on Capt. Gulliver's Travels . . 491 Index ..........