Thomas Bradley, M.D. (1751–1813) was an English

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Life

Bradley was a native of

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, where for some time he conducted a school in which

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formed a prominent study. About 1786 he withdrew from education, and, devoting himself to medical studies, went to

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, where he graduated M.D. in 1791. He settled in London, and on 22 December 1791 was admitted licentiate of the

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. From 1794 to 1811 he was physician to the

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. In the practice of his profession he was not very successful. Bradley died in

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at the close of 1813.

Works

His doctoral dissertation was published as ''De Epispasticorum Usu in variis morbis tractandis.'' For many years he acted as editor of the '' Medical and Physical Journal.'' He published a revised and enlarged edition of Joseph Fox the younger's ''

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'', 1803, and also a ''Treatise on Worms and other Animals which infest the Human Body'', 1813. On the Prospectus for ''

Rees's Cyclopædia Rees's ''Cyclopædia'', in full ''The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature'' was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar w ...

'' he was credited with writing articles on medicine.

References

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