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John Quincy
d. 1722
An English apothecary and medical writer from the early 18th century, remembered for turning dense medical learning into practical reference works. His books helped shape how readers and practitioners navigated medicine, pharmacy, and scientific ideas of his time.
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Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion
by Nathaniel Hodges, John Quincy
About the author
John Quincy was an English apothecary who practiced in London and became known as a medical writer rather than as a literary author in the modern sense. Sources consistently describe him as active in the world of medicine and pharmacy, with a reputation built on explanatory and reference-style works.
He is especially associated with medical dictionaries and dispensatories, including Lexicon Physico-Medicum and The Compleat English Dispensatory. Accounts also note his interest in mathematics and in the philosophy of Isaac Newton, which helps place him in the lively intellectual culture of the early 1700s.
Biographical notices describe him as a Dissenter and a Whig, a friend of the physician Richard Mead, and an opponent of John Woodward. He died in 1722, leaving behind a body of practical medical writing that kept his name in circulation well beyond his lifetime.