JOHNSON, Samuel (1709 – 1784)

1709 – 1784

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Joshua Reynolds · Tate Gallery . Copy held by Pembroke College, Oxford. Lane, Margaret (1975), Samuel Johnson & his World , p. 229. New York: Harpers & Row Publishers, ISBN 0060124962 . This portrait has been published several times during the 19th century. [1] [2] [3] · Public domain

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1743 CE–1745 CE

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A medicinal dictionary: Including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs; An account of their various preparations, combinations, and uses; and an introductory preface tracing the progress of physic, and explaining theories which have principally prevail'd in all ages of the world. With copper plates. 3 vols.

JAMES, Robert (1705 – 1776)

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709 – 1784)

The largest, most exhaustive and most learned medical dictionary written in English prior to the early 19th century. Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication and some of the articles. This was Johnson’s first venture…