John Mason Good (May 25, 1764–January 2, 1827), English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born at Epping, Essex. Events 1085 - Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo Spain back from the Moors. Year 1764 ( MDCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers invading the Roman Empire. Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Epping is a small market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England.
After attending a school at Romsey kept by his father, the Rev. Romsey is a small market town in the county of Hampshire, England. Peter Good, who was a Nonconformist minister. Nonconformism is the refusal to conform to common standards conventions rules customs traditions norms or laws At about the age of fifteen, John Good was apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary at Gosport. History The Rowner area of the peninsula was known to have been settled in Saxon times mentioned in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as Rughenor (Rough bank or slope In 1783 he went to London to prosecute his medical studies. Year 1783 ( MDCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. In the autumn of 1784, he began to practise as a surgeon at Sudbury in Suffolk. Sudbury is a small ancient Market town in the county of Suffolk, England, on the River Stour, 15 miles from Colchester and 60 Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. There he was an acquaintance of Nathan Drake, a fellow writer and student of Shakespeare. Nathan Drake ( 15 January 1766 –1836 English essayist and Physician, son of Nathan Drake an artist was born at York. William Shakespeare ( baptised
In 1793 Good removed to London, where he entered into partnership with a surgeon and apothecary. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common But the partnership was soon dissolved, and to increase his income, he began to devote attention to literary pursuits. Besides contributing both in prose and verse to the Analytical and Critical Reviews and the British and Monthly Magazines, and other periodicals, he wrote a large number of works relating chiefly to medical and religious subjects.
In 1794 John Good became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connection, and especially by the publication of his work, A History of Medicine (1795), he did much to effect a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary. Year 1794 ( MDCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a In 1820, he took the diploma of M. D. at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen. Marischal College is a building in the Scottish city of Aberdeen belonging to the University of Aberdeen. The University of Aberdeen is an Ancient university founded in 1495, in Old Aberdeen, Scotland. He died at Shepperton, Middlesex, on 2 January 1827. Shepperton is a Town in Surrey in the borough of Spelthorne, in England. Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area.
Good was not only well versed in classical literature, but was acquainted with the principal European languages, and also with Persian, Arabic and Hebrew. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language His prose works display wide erudition, but their style is dull and tedious. His poetry never rises above pleasant and well-versified commonplace. His translation of Lucretius, The Nature of Things (1805-1807), contains elaborate philological and explanatory notes, together with parallel passages and quotations from European and Asiatic authors. Titus Lucretius Carus (ca 99 BC- ca 55 BC was a Roman Poet and Philosopher. See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology"
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
- Olinthus Gregory, Charles Jerram, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character, Literary, Professional, and Religious of the late John Mason Good MD, Crocker and Brewster, Boston, Mass. (1829).
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