George Bate (1608–1668) was an English

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. Bate graduated with an M.D. from

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in 1637. Three years later he treated

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in Oxford. He was physician to Oliver Cromwell and his family, physician to Charles II, and one of the founding Fellows of the

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. He published several medical and political articles and books including two volumes of ''Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia''.Bruce-Chwatt (1983)

Notes

Works

* ''Pharmacopoeia Bateana: Or Bate's Dispensatory'' . Smith & Walford, London Translated from the second Edition of the Latin Copy, published by Mr. James Shipton / By William Salmon 169
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by the University and State Library Düsseldorf * ''Pharmacopoeia Bateana, seu Pharmaca e Praxi Georgii Batei, Regis Angliae Medici primarii, excerpta : cum Viribus & Dosibus annexis ; Nec non Arcana Goddardiana; & Orthotonia Medicorum Observata ; Jacobi Le Mortii Chymia vindicata, & comparata, Philosophia medica, atque Theoria Hominis, & Morborum''. J. G. Hertz, Venetiis 170
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References

* Lee, Sidney (1903), Dictionary of National Biographybr>Index and Epitome
*Bruce-Chwatt, L. J.

', Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Vol. 17 No. 2 April 1983. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bate, George 1608 births 1668 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Original Fellows of the Royal Society