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GARTH, SIR SAMUEL (1661-1719)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 480 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GARTH, SIR SAMUEL (1661-1719) , English physician and poet, was born of a good Yorkshire family in 1661. He entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge
 , in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and M.A. in 1684. He took his M.D. and became a member of the College of Physicians in 1691. In 1697 he delivered the Harveian oration, in which he advocated a
scheme
  dating from some ten years back for providing dispensaries for the relief of the sick poor, as a
protection
  against the greed of the apothecaries. In 1699 he published a mock-heroic poem, The Dispensary, in six cantos, which had an instant success, passing through three editions within a year. In this he ridiculed the apothecaries and their allies among the physicians. The poem has little
interest
  at the present day, except as a proof that the heroic couplet was written with smoothness and polish before the days of
Pope
 . Garth was a member of the Kit-Kat Club, and became the leading physician of the Whigs, as Radcliffe was of the Tories. In 1714 he was knighted by George I. and he died on the 18th of January 1719. He wrote little besides his best-known
work
  The Dispensary and Claremont, a moral espistle in verse. He made a Latin oration (1700) in praise of
Dryden
  and translated the Life of Otho in the fifth volume of
Dryden
 's
Plutarch
 . In 1717 he edited a
translation
  of Ovid's Metamorphoses, himself supplying the fourteenth and
part
  of the fifteenth book.


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