Dr GEORGE (1671-1742), was born in Scotland, and educated under Dr Archibald Pitcairne. After his graduation he settled in London, where he soon became known by the publication of his Theory of Fevers, and also of a work On Fluxions. In the former of these he advocated the mechanical theory of secretion, in accordance with the doctrines which he had imbibed from his master. Having been twice the victim of an excessive corpulency, which he twice succeeded in subduing by means of vegetable diet, he wrote a book entitled The English Malady, in which he has given a variety of curious details in regard to his own treatment, and the dietetic treatment of diseases in general. He had also discussed the same subject in his Essay on Health and Long Life. Besides these, he published in early life a treatise on the Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion, which was dedicated to the Earl of Roxburgh; and his later writings are uniformly pervaded by a genial spirit of piety and benevolence. He died at Bath, whither he had retired for his health, in 1742.