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Notes 99
Probably at least from 1734, from the agitation aroused when Gibson
frustrated Rundle's promotion to Gloucester, he was becoming increasingly
unpopular with some of Walpole's supporters, and was being
attacked as a new Laud or Wolsey, an accusation strongly suggested by
an eminent dissenter, Sir Michael Foster, in his Examination of the Scheme
of Church Power (1735).
Dr Oliver: William Oliver (1695-1764), a physician whose degree of
M.D. had been granted at Cambridge in 1725 and who had trained at
Leyden in 1720. He was physician to the Bath Mineral Water Hospital,
1740-61, and the inventor of the "Bath Oliver" biscuit (Innes Smith,
English-Speaking Students, p. 174 and D.N.B.).
Dr Cheyne: George Cheyne (1671-1743), who, like Charles Maitland
(see fol. 14), was a Scot from Methlick and who studied medicine
probably at Leyden 1691 and graduated M.D. at King's College,
Aberdeen 1701. Pope described him to George Lyttleton "as foolish a
good kind of Christian Creature as one shall meet with" [12 December,
1739 in Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn (Oxford,
1956), IV, p. 208]. Much interested in mysticism and an admirer of
William Law, he also promoted vegetarianism and cold baths. "Cold
Bathing is our Corporal Baptism and Outward Cleansing which gives us
present Strength to work out our cure in the Duties of the Vocation
whereunto we are called" [Letters of Dr. George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson
1738-1743, ed. C.F. Mullet (Columbia, Missouri, 1943), p. 101: Bath,
30 June, 1742].
Dr Harrington: Edward Harington (1697P-1757), who graduated
D.M. at Oxford in 1726 and practiced medicine at Bath (Foster, Alumni
Oxon.).
Dr Mead: Richard Mead (1673-1754), who was a pioneer in the use of
inoculation. The son of a dissenting minister, he entered Leyden as a
medical student in 1693, received an M.D. at Padua 1695 and at Oxford
in 1707 (Innes Smith, English-Speaking Students, p. 156). His Short
Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion and the Methods to be used to Prevent it
(1720) was a pioneer work in exploring the association between environment
and disease [T. McKeown & R.G. Brown, "Medical Evidence
Related to English Population Changes in the Eighteenth Century," in
Population in History, ed. D.V Glass & D.E.C. Eversley (London, 1965),
pp. 292-93; William Münk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians in
London (London, 1878), II, 40].