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John Quincy

d. 1722

An early-18th-century London medical writer, he turned practical pharmacy and medical reference works into books that stayed in use long after his death. His writing sits at the crossroads of apothecary practice, learned medicine, and the fierce medical debates of his time.

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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665

Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665

by Nathaniel Hodges, John Quincy

About the author

Practising in London as an apothecary, he became known less for bedside fame than for the books he produced for students and practitioners. Contemporary biographical sources describe him as a dissenter and a Whig, as well as a friend of the physician Richard Mead.

His best-known works include Lexicon Physico-medicum (1717), English Dispensatory (1721), and Medicina Statica Britannica (1712), a translation connected with the work of Sanctorius. He also published polemical writing against John Woodward and prepared an edition of Nathaniel Hodges's Loimologia.

He died in 1722. A biography in the Dictionary of National Biography suggests that his strongest reputation rested on organizing medical and pharmaceutical knowledge clearly, which helps explain why some of his books continued to be reissued after his lifetime.