FREIND (John), a most learned English physician and writer in the 18th century, was born at Croton, Northamptonshire, in 1675. In 1696, he published, in conjunction with Mr P. Foulkes, an edition of two Greek orations, one of Alcibiades against Ctesiphon, and the other of Demosthenes de Corone, with a new Latin version. In 1699, he wrote a letter to Dr Sloane concerning an Hydrocephalus, published in the Philosophical Transactions; and another letter in Latin to the same gentleman, De spasmitis variis. historia, printed in the same Transactions. In 1703, his Emmenologia appeared; which gained him great reputation. In 1704, he was chosen professor of chemistry in the university of Oxford. In 1705, he attended the earl of Peterborough to Spain, as physician to the army there; and upon his return in 1707, published an account of the earl's expedition and conduct. In 1709, he published his Chemical Lectures. In 1712, he attended the duke of Ormond in Flanders, as his physician. In 1716, he was admitted a fellow of the college of physicians in London. This year he published the first and third books of Hippocrates De morbis popularibus, with a Commentary on Fevers, written by himself. He sat a member for the borough of
Launceston in Cornwall, in 1722, where he distinguished himself by his opposition to the administration. March 1722, he was committed to the tower on a charge of high-treason: and while he was under confinement, he wrote a Latin epistle to Dr Mead, De quibusdam variolarum generibus; and began his History of Physic, the first part of which was published in 1725, and the second in 1726. Upon the accession of George II. to the throne, he was appointed physician in ordinary to the queen, who showed the utmost regard and esteem for him. He died at London in 1728. His works were published together in Latin at London, 1733, in folio, and dedicated to the queen.