Samuel Farr (physician)

Samuel Farr, M.D. (1741 – 11 March 1795) was an English physician.

Life

Farr was born at Taunton, Somerset, in 1741. His parents were Protestant Dissenters.[1] His father, whose name is tentatively identified as Thomas Farr, was a merchant and alderman at Bristol;[2] his family was involved in the Atlantic slave trade.[3]

Farr was educated at Bristol Grammar School.[2] A close friend of Thomas Percival, he attended Warrington Academy with him (class of 1758).[3] He then studied at the University of Edinburgh, and finally at Leyden University with Percival, where he took the degree of MD (1765). He was a physician to the Bristol Infirmary from 1767 to 1780, and practised for some years in Bristol.[1][3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779 (although his election may have been subsequently voided for non-appearance).[4]

Returning to Taunton, Farr acquired an extensive practice there. He died at Upcott, near Taunton, in the house of John Fisher, on 11 March 1795.[1]

Works

Farr's published works are:[1]

  • An Essay on the Medical Virtues of Acids, 1769.
  • A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Extent of Animal Motion, deduced from the principles of reason and analogy, 1771.
  • Aphorismi de Marasmo ex summis Medicis collecti, 1772.
  • Inquiry into the Propriety of Blood-letting in Consumption, 1775; against the practice.
  • The History of Epidemics, by Hippocrates, in seven books; translated into English from the Greek, with Notes and Observations.
  • A Preliminary Discourse on the Nature and Cure of Infection, London, 1781.
  • Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, 1788; 2nd edit. 1811; a translation from the work of Johann Friedrich Faselius, with additions by the translator.
  • On the Use of Cantharides in Dropsical Complaints (Memoirs Med. ii. 132, 1789).

References

  1. ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Farr, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ a b Bagshaw, Kaye. "Farr, Samuel (1741–1795)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9184. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c Cooke, Bill (11 August 2020). The Story of Warrington. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-83859-438-1.
  4. ^ "Fellow Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 January 2017.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Farr, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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