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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 MASON GOOD (1764-1827)  ,
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English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born on the 25th of May 1764 at
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Epping, Essex . After attending a school at
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Romsey kept by his
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father, the Rev . Peter Good, who was a
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Nonconformist minister, he was, at about the age of fifteen, apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary at
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Gosport . In 1783 he went to
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London to prosecute his medical studies, and in the autumn of 1784 he began to practise as a surgeon at Sudbury in Suffolk . In 1793 he removed to London, where he entered into partnership with a surgeon and apothecary . But the partnership was soon dissolved, and to increase his income he began to devote attention to
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literary pursuits . Besides contributing both in
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prose and verse to the
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Analytical and Critical Reviews and the
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British and Monthly Magazines, and other
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periodicals, he wrote a large number of
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works
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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
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work, A
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History of
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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 College, Aberdeen . He died at Shepperton, Middlesex, on the 2nd of
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January 1827 . Good was not only well versed in classical literature, but was acquainted with the
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principal
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European
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languages, and also with Persian, Arabic and
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Hebrew . His prose works display wide erudition; but their style is dull and tedious .

His

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

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