Life
fl.1775; physician, grad. M.D. in France, practised in Bath; removed to
London, 1764; wrote on hydrophobia; member of Literary Club, and FRS,
1765; he was the father-in-law of Edmund Burke, who married his dg. Jane.
[QRY, son of Thomas Nugent ?1700-1772, infra] DNB.
Notes
British Library holds An Essay on the Hydrophobia, to which is
prefixed the case of a person who was bit by a mad dog ... and was cured
(London 1753); French trans., [...] Essai sur l’hydrophobie [...]
traduction partielle ... analyse et commentaires (Toulouse 1887).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)