Author:John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot
(1667–1735)

John Arbuthnot

Works

• An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning, in a letter from a gentleman in the City to his friend in Oxford (1701)
• Epitaph on Don Francisco
• His Virgilius Restauratus (c. 1727)
• The History of John Bull (1712)
• On the Art of Political Lying (c. 1710-1730)
• Reasons Offered Against Examining Drugs (1724)
• Testimonies Respecting the Character of Dr. Swift
• Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (17xx), co-authored by Alexander Pope
• A Treatise concerning the Altercation or Scolding of the Ancients (17xx)
• Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures, explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations (1727) external scan
• An essay concerning the nature of aliments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies. (1731) external scan
• Practical Rules of Diet in the various Constitutions and Characters of Human Bodies (1732)
• An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies (1733) external scan

Letters to Jonathan Swift

• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 1 (June 12, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 2 (June 26, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 3 (July 10, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 4 (July 17, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 5 (July 24, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 6 (August 12, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 7 (October 19, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 8 (October 14, 1718)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 9 (December 11, 1718)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 10 (November 1723)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 11 (October 17, 1725)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 12 (April 5, 1726)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 13 (September 6, 1726)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 14 (November 8, 1726)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 15 (November 30, 1727)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 16 (March 19, 1729)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 17 (May 8, 1729)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 18 (June 9, 1729)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 19 (November 1730)
• Letter From Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 18 (December 5, 1732)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 20 (January 13, 1733)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Jonathan Swift - 21 (October 4, 1734)

Other Letters

• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Charles Ford - 1 (October 19, 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Charles Ford - 2 (December 1714)
• Letter From John Arbuthnot to Charles Ford - 3 (December 1714)

Works about Arbuthnot

• The life and works of John Arbuthnot, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1892) by George Atherton Aitken
• "Arbuthnot, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Arbuthnot, John," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Arbuthnot, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Arbuthnot, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Arbuthnot, John, M.D.," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.