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JOHN MASON GOOD (1764-1827)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:MASON See also:GOOD (1764-1827)  , See also:English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was See also:born on the 25th of May 1764 at See also:Epping, See also:Essex . After attending a school at See also:Romsey kept by his See also:father, the Rev . See also:Peter See also:Good, who was a See also:Nonconformist See also:minister, he was, at about the See also:age of fifteen, apprenticed to a surgeon-See also:apothecary at See also:Gosport . In 1783 he went to See also:London to prosecute his medical studies, and in the autumn of 1784 he began to practise as a surgeon at See also:Sudbury in See also:Suffolk . In 1793 he removed to London, where he entered into See also:partnership with a surgeon and apothecary . But the partnership was soon dissolved, and to increase his income he began to devote See also:attention to See also:literary pursuits . Besides contributing both in See also:prose and See also:verse to the See also:Analytical and See also:Critical Reviews and the See also:British and Monthly Magazines, and other See also:periodicals, he wrote a large number of See also:works See also:relating chiefly to medical and religious subjects . In 1794 he .became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connexion, and especially by the publication of his See also:work, A See also:History of See also:Medicine (1795), he did much to effect a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary . In 182o he took the diploma of M.D. at Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen . He died at Shepperton, See also:Middlesex, on the 2nd of See also:January 1827 . Good was not only well versed in classical literature, but was acquainted with the See also:principal See also:European See also:languages, and also with See also:Persian, Arabic and See also:Hebrew . His prose works display wide erudition; but their See also:style is dull and tedious .

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poetry never rises above pleasant and well-versified See also:commonplace . His See also:translation of See also:Lucretius, The Nature of Things (1805-1807), contains elaborate philological and explanatory notes, together with parallel passages and quotations from European and See also:Asiatic authors .

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