Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Strother, Edward

by Edward Irving Carlyle

STROTHER, EDWARD (d. 1737), medical writer, born in Northumberland, was perhaps son of Edward Strother, who was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians on 1 Oct. 1700, and afterwards practised at Alnwick. On 8 May 1720 he graduated M.D. at the university of Utrecht, and on 3 April 1721 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians. He died on 14 April 1737 at his house near Soho Square.

He was the author of: 1. ‘A Critical Essay on Fevers,’ London, 1716, 8vo. 2. ‘Evodia, or a Discourse of Causes and Cures,’ London, 1718, 8vo. 3. ‘Pharmacopœia Practica,’ London, 1719, 12mo. 4. ‘D. M. I. de Vi Cordis Motrice,’ Utrecht, 1720, 4to. 5. ‘Experienced Measures how to manage the Small-pox,’ London, 1721, 8vo. 6. ‘Syllabus Prælectionum Pharmaco-logicarum et Medico-practicarum,’ London, 1724, 4to. 7. ‘An Essay on Sickness and Health,’ London, 1725, 8vo. 8. ‘Practical Observations on the Epidemical Fever,’ London, 1729, 8vo. Some observations by Strother are also prefixed to Radcliffe's ‘Pharmacopœia,’ London, 1716, 12mo; and he translated Harman's ‘Materia Medica,’ London, 1727, 8vo.

[Munk's Roll of the Royal College of Physicians, i. 520, ii. 77; Gent. Mag. 1737, p. 253; Album Studiosorum Academiæ Rheno-Trajectanæ (Utrecht), col. 121; Political State of Great Britain, 1737, i. 432.]

E. I. C.

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.261
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

Page	Col.	Line
62	ii	18 f.e.	Strother, Edward: for born in Northumberland, read born in 1675 at Alnwick, in Northumberland
		17 f.e.	omit perhaps
		14 f.e.	before On 8 May insert He was admitted a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, 24 Aug. 1695, aged 20, but did not graduate.