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JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709-1779)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:ARMSTRONG (1709-1779)  , See also:British physician and writer, was See also:born about 1709 at See also:Castletown, See also:Roxburghshire, where his See also:father was See also:parish See also:minister . He graduated M.D . (1732) at See also:Edinburgh University, and soon afterwards settled in See also:London, where he paid more See also:attention to literature than to See also:medicine . He was, in 1746, appointed one of the physicians to the military See also:hospital behind See also:Buckingham See also:House; and, in 176o, physician to the See also:army in See also:Germany, an See also:appointment which he held till the See also:peace of 1763, when he retired on See also:half-pay . For many years he was closely associated with See also:John Wilkes, but quarrelled with him in 1763 . He died on the 7th of See also:September 1779 . See also:Armstrong's first publication, an See also:anonymous one, entitled An See also:Essay for Abridging the Study of Physic (1735), was a See also:satire on the See also:ignorance of the apothecaries and medical men of his See also:day . This was followed two years after by the See also:Economy of Love, a poem the indecency of which damaged his professional practice . In 1744 appeared his See also:Art of Preserving See also:Health, a very successful didactic poem, and the one See also:production on which his See also:literary reputation rests . His Miscellanies (1770) contains some shorter poems displaying considerable See also:humour .

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