John Freind was a physician and natural philosopher. He published his first medical treatise in the Philosophical Transactions in 1699. Freind served as a physician to the Earl of Peterborough and the Duke of Ormond during wartime. In 1717 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and continued to publish medical treatises and political tracts, including his very popular ‘The History of Physic’. In 1727 he became Queen Caroline’s physician.
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Anita Guerrini, ‘Freind, John (1675-1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10153 [accessed 24 July 2013]).
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