Leigh, Charles
, a naturalist and physician of the
seventeenth century, was born at Grange, in Lancashire.
He entered in 1679, of Brazen-nose college, Oxford, and
took a bachelor’s degree in arts, whence he removed to
Cambridge, and proceeding in the faculty of medicine,
afterwards practised in London with considerable reputation. He was admitted a member of the royal society in
May 1685. He left the following works: “The Natural
History of the Counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, &c.” London, 1700, folio, with plates. Into this
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is incorporated the best part of the following publication
“Phtbisiologia Lancastrieusis, cum tentamine philosophico de Miueralibus Aquis in eodem comitatu observatis,”
London, 1694, 8vo. “Exercitationes quinque de Aquis
Mineralibus, Thermis calidis, Morbis acutis, Morbis intermittentibus, Hydrope,” ibid. 1697. “History of Virginia,”
drawn up from observations made during a residence in
that country, London, 1705, 12mo. Of his “Natural History of Lancashire,” bishop Nicolson speaks with great,
and, as Mr. Gough thinks, deserved contempt. The coini
described in this book were left to Mr. Prescot of Catherine-hall, Cambridge. The time of his death is not mentioned
in any of the accounts we have seen of him. 1
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Works
The Natural
History of the Counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, &c. 1700
Phtbisiologia Lancastrieusis, cum tentamine philosophico de Miueralibus Aquis in eodem comitatu observatis, 1694
Exercitationes quinque de Aquis
Mineralibus, Thermis calidis, Morbis acutis, Morbis intermittentibus, Hydrope, 1697
Works Online
Works found by this author (or others with similar names)in the Early English Books Online Collection:
Remarks on Mr. Richard Bolton's piece, concerning the heat of the blood (1698)
A reply to Mr. Richard Bolton of Brazen-Nose-College in Oxford, occasion'd by his presuming to dedicate his last piece to Dr. Charles Goodall, one of the censors of the College of Physicians by Charles Leigh ... (1698)
A reply to John Colebatch, upon his late piece concerning the curing the biting of a viper by acids by Charles Leigh ... (1698)
The natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire with an account of the British, Phœnician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. antiquities in those parts / by Charles Leigh ... (1700)