EDMUND** (1624–1707), an English physician and chemist, was born at Appleby, Berkshire. He took his degrees at Merton College, Oxford; and in 1655 published his *Delphi Phoenicizontes*, a learned work, in which he attempted to prove that the Greeks borrowed the story of the Pythian Apollo, and all the legends with which the Delphic oracle was associated, from the Holy Scriptures. After practising at Oxford, Dickinson removed in 1684 to London, where he was appointed physician in ordinary to Charles II.; an office which he also held under James II. Dickinson was the author of a work entitled *Physica vetus et vera*, in which he endeavoured to construct a system of philosophy on principles collected from the Mosaic history.