See also:JOHN See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
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
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
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
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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
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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
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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
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In 182o he took the diploma of M.D. at Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen
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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
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His prose works display wide erudition; but their See also:style is dull and tedious
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His See also: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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