Author:Christopher Merret

Christopher Merret
(1614–1695)

Christopher Merret

Works

• Catalogus Librorum, instrumentorum chirurgicorum, rerum curiosarum, exoticarumque Coll. Med. Lond. quæ habentur in Musæo Harveano (1660)
• A Collection of Acts of Parliament, Charters, Trials at Law, and Judges' Opinions, concerning Grants to the College of Physicians (1660) (external scan)
• The Art of Glass, wherein are shown the wayes to make and colour Glass, Pastes, Enamels, Lakes, and other Curiosities. Written in Italian by Antonio Neri, and translated into English, with some observations on the author (1662) London (external scan)
• An Account of Freezing made in December and January, 1662’ (but containing observations made in 1664, ‘there being no frosts in England in 1663’), annexed to Robert Boyle's ‘New Experiments … touching Cold, (1665), pp. 1–54
• "Observations concerning the uniting of barks of trees cut, to the tree itself" in Philosophical Transactions, 2, pp. 453–454
• "An experiment of making cherry-trees, that have withered fruit, to bear full and good fruit; and recovering the almost withered fruit" in Philosophical Transactions, 2, p. 455
• "An experiment on Aloe Americana serrati-folia weighed; seeming to import a circulation of the sappe in plants" in Philosophical Transactions, 2, pp. 455–457
• "A description of several kinds of granaries, as those of London, of Dantzick, and in Muscovy" in Philosophical Transactions, 2, pp. 464–467
• Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum, Continens Vegetabilia, Animalia, Et Fossilia, in Hac Insula Reperta Inchoatus (1667) London (external scan)
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses committed by Apothecaries, and of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines (1669)
• Self-conviction, or an Enumeration of the Absurdities and Railings against the College and Physicians in general, (1670)
• The Accomplisht Physician, the Honest Apothecary, and the Skilful Chyrurgeon detecting their necessary connexion and dependence on each other. Withall a Discovery of the Quacking Empirick, the Prescribing Surgeon, and the Practising Apothecary, (1670) (external scan)
• "A relation of the tinn-mines, and working of tinn in the county of Cornwal" in Philosophical Transactions, 12, pp. 949–952
• "The art of refining" in Philosophical Transactions, 12, pp. 1046–1052
• Some Observations concerning the Ordering of Urines, (1682)

Works about Merret

"Merret, Christopher," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.