Francis Herring Explained

Francis Herring M.D. (died 1628) was an English physician, known as a medical and religious writer.

Life

A native of Nottinghamshire, Herring was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1585, M.A. 1589). On 3 July 1599, then a doctor of medicine of Cambridge of two years' standing, he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians of London. He was censor in 1609, 1618, 1620, 1623, 1624, 1626, and 1627. He was named an elect on 5 June 1623, and died in the beginning of 1628.[1]

Works

He translated from the Latin of Johann Oberndoerffer, The Anatomyes of the True Physition and Counterfeit Mounte-banke: wherein both of them are graphically described, and set out in their Right and Orient Colours, London, 1602; adding, as appendix, A short Discourse, or Discouery of certaine Stratagems, whereby our London-Empericks haue bene obserued strongly to oppugne, and oft times to expugne their Poore Patients Purses. Herring's other writings were:[1]

Under the title of Mischeefes Mysterie both parts of Herring's poem on the Gunpowder plot, with A Psalme of Thankesgiving, and An Epigram against Jesuites, were translated into English by John Vicars London, 1617. Another edition, entitled The Quintessence of Cruelty, appeared in 1641.[1]

Notes

Attribution

Notes and References

  1. Herring, Francis. 26.
  2. 13095. Herring, Francis. Sarah. Bakewell.
  3. Book: Phineas Fletcher. Locustae, Vel, Pietas Jesuitica. 1 January 1996. Leuven University Press. 978-90-6186-737-1. xxxiv.