Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 857

THOMAS REEVE (1700?-1780) A cure for the epidemical madness of drinking tar water, lately imported from Ireland by a certain R---t R----d doctor. In a letter to his L---p. By T.R. M.D. Printed for J. and P. Knapton 1744 66 pp. 20 cm.

Reeve was physician to St. Thomas Hospital, London, for over twenty years and was also very active in the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians, serving as its president for nearly ten years. Although Reeve's name does not appear in the pamphlet, his initials do, and historians attribute it to him. His position of leadership in the College made him a likely individual to write this pamphlet in which he attacks George Berkeley's Philosophical reflexions and inquiries concerning the virtues of tar water (see No. 804).

See Related Record(s): 804