Jones, John

, an old medical writer, was either born in Wales, or was of Welsh extraction; studied at both our universities, took a medical degree at Cambridge, and practised with great reputation at Bath, in Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire. He mentions curing a person at Louth in 1562, and the date of his last publication is 1759.

His principal pieces are, “The Dial of Agues,” 1556 “The Benefit of the antient Bathes of Buckstone,” 1572; “The Bathes of Bath’s ayde,” 1572 “A brief, excellent, and profitable Discourse of the natural beginning of all growing and living things, &c.” 1574 perhaps this is taken from “Galen’s Four Books of Elements,” which he translated and printed the same year, or is the same book with another title; “The Art and Science of preserving the Body and Soul in Health,” &c. 1579, 4to. ²