Edward Strother

Edward Strother
Born	Northumberland
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Medical writer and physician

Edward Strother (died 14 April 1737) was an English medical writer and physician.

Biography

Strother born in Northumberland. He was perhaps son of Edward Strother, who was admitted an extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 1 October 1700, and afterwards practised at Alnwick. On 8 May 1720 he graduated M.D. at the university of Utrecht, and on 3 April 1721 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians. He died on 14 April 1737 at his house near Soho Square.

He was the author of:

• ‘A Critical Essay on Fevers,’ London, 1716, 8vo.
• ‘Evodia, or a Discourse of Causes and Cures,’ London, 1718, 8vo.
• ‘Pharmacopœia Practica,’ London, 1719, 12mo.
• ‘D. M. I. de Vi Cordis Motrice,’ Utrecht, 1720, 4to.
• ‘Experienced Measures how to manage the Small-pox,’ London, 1721, 8vo.
• ‘Syllabus Prælectionum Pharmaco-logicarum et Medico-practicarum,’ London, 1724, 4to.
• ‘An Essay on Sickness and Health,’ London, 1725, 8vo.
• ‘Practical Observations on the Epidemical Fever,’ London, 1729, 8vo.

Some observations by Strother are also prefixed to John Radcliffe ‘Pharmacopœia,’ London, 1716, 12mo; and he translated Harman's ‘Materia Medica,’ London, 1727, 8vo.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1886). "Strother, Edward". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 05. London: Smith, Elder & Co.