Nathaniel Henshaw M.D. (baptised 1628 – 1673) was an English physician and
original Fellow of the Royal Society
This is a list of the original fellows of the Royal Society, defined as those fellows, excepting the List of founder fellows of the Royal Society, founder fellows, who were elected prior to July 1663. Most were appointed on 20 May or 22 June 1663.< ...
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Life
He was a younger son of Benjamin Henshaw (died 4 December 1631) and his wife Anne, daughter of William Bonham of London;
Thomas Henshaw was his elder brother.
He first studied medicine at the
University of Padua in 1649.
He was entered for the physic course at
Leyden University on 4 November 1653, proceeded M.D. there, and was admitted M.D.
ad eundem at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
in the summer term 1664.
On 20 May 1663 Henshaw was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. He practised in Dublin as a physician, but died in London in September 1673, and was buried on 13 September in Kensington Church. His will, dated 6 August 1673, was proved at London on the following 11 September by his sister, Anne Grevys.
Works
Henshaw was author of a treatise ''Aero-Chalinos'' (1664) concerned with "fresh air" and its medical value. A second edition (London, 1677) was printed by order of the Royal Society, at a meeting held on 1 March 1677, having been prepared for the press by Thomas Henshaw. It was reviewed in ''
Philosophical Transactions
''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society. In its earliest days, it was a private venture of the Royal Society's secretary. It was established in 1665, making it the first journa ...
'' (xii. 834–5) by
Henry Oldenburg.
Papers written by Henshaw on
saltpetre and
gunpowder were strongly attacked by
Henry Stubbe
Henry Stubbe or Stubbes (1632–12 July, 1676) was an English Royal physician, Latinist, Historian, Dissident, Writer and Scholar.
Life
He was born in Partney, Lincolnshire, and educated at Westminster School. Given patronage as a child by the ...
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Year of birth missing
1673 deaths
17th-century English medical doctors
Fellows of the Royal Society