Authority Cited: Arbuthnot
Author name and dates: John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician; emphasized diet role in disease; creator of “John Bull”; friend of Swift and Pope; SJ: "universal genius"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: excluding citations of Martimus Scriblerus, there are about 912 Arbuthnot cites in the 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1019 Arbuthnot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Of these cites, a substantial fraction do not cite a title. To identify all of the works cited by SJ for Arbuthnot, all of the undesignated cites were examined and grouped under the Arbuthnot titles below, and indicated in brackets. No attempt was made to separate quotations that appeared to be from either Aliments or Diet. These are grouped under "no work cited," without brackets. Seven Arbuthnot cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated by bold italic below. Item #273 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, Fleeman, ed. is Arbuthnot's tables of ancient coins. Because SJ quotes from the Dedication to the King, written by Arbuthnot's son Charles, and because the 1727 edition was in his library, I conclude that SJ likely used the 1727 edition of the Table of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures.]
Author name and dates: John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
BKG Bio-tweet: Physician; emphasized diet role in disease; creator of “John Bull”; friend of Swift and Pope; SJ: "universal genius"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: excluding citations of Martimus Scriblerus, there are about 912 Arbuthnot cites in the 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 1019 Arbuthnot cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Of these cites, a substantial fraction do not cite a title. To identify all of the works cited by SJ for Arbuthnot, all of the undesignated cites were examined and grouped under the Arbuthnot titles below, and indicated in brackets. No attempt was made to separate quotations that appeared to be from either Aliments or Diet. These are grouped under "no work cited," without brackets. Seven Arbuthnot cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated by bold italic below. Item #273 in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, Fleeman, ed. is Arbuthnot's tables of ancient coins. Because SJ quotes from the Dedication to the King, written by Arbuthnot's son Charles, and because the 1727 edition was in his library, I conclude that SJ likely used the 1727 edition of the Table of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures.]
- Art of Political Lying in Vol. 3 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst. [Teerink No. 66.]; abominable; auditory; ... [democratical]; ... glut; [hoard]; [hotheaded]; [incapacity]; [indifference]; [inveigh]; [practitioner]; [promissory]; [pseudology]; [restitution]; [squabble]; [stock]; [translatory]; [well]; [BKG Note: see edition discussion under Swift]
- Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments (& Preface); An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. 3rd ed. London, 1735, 1st ed. 1731; abatement; abolish; absorbent; abstemious; abundant; accelerate; ... burst; ... [conformable]; [fetid]; [hard]; hemorrhage; [indigenous]; laborer; lacteal; [leguminous]; [live]; [lute]; [miscible]; [mixture]; [momentary]; [pulse]; [reaction]; recovery; [restorative]; [run]; [rupture (same quote as lute)]; [rupture]; [shade]; [short]; [slimy]; [spirituous (spiritous in text)]; [spumous]; [stoppage]; [substantive]; [supple (suppling in text)]; [tenacity]; [tenuity]; [tetrapetalous]; [thornback]; [to]; [vacuity]; [variously]; [unfermented]; [unquenched]; [whereas]; [wiredraw];
- Essay on the Effects of Air on Human Bodies An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies. London, 1733 (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.147, citations include: barometer, emit, repulsion); [absorb] (added in 1773 Dict.); atrabilarious; attenuate; bagnio; baroscope; catoptrical; [contractibility]; [culminary]; [dilatability]; [dive]; [gradually]; [hygroscope]; [invasion]; [legume]; [measles (meazles in text)]; [moist]; perflate;[pestiferous]; [petuite]; [ponderation]; [powdermill]; [pulmonick] (added in 1773 Dict.); [putrefy]; [readmission]; [relaxation]; [repulsion]; [shaft]; [spray]; [strict]; [subsidence]; taint; [tardy]; [tepor]; [trepan (thanks to Beth Young for this and several other cite identifications on this page)]; [tympany]; [verberation]; [viscosity]; [vulcano];
- History of John Bull (& Preface) in Vol. 3 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst. [Teerink No. 66.]; abominable; [brutally]; [clockwork]; [clodpated]; [con]; [condign]; [customer]; [drinkmoney]; [ear]; [elopment]; [empale]; [extravagance]; [flush]; [foulmouthed]; [gang]; [gash]; [glib]; [go (2)]; [grubstreet]; [guardian]; [headstrong]; [heelpiece]; [hence]; [henpecked]; [herbwoman]; [hunch]; [interest]; [jackanapes]; [jig]; [job]; [jog]; [jointstool]; [kennl]; [lay]; [liveryman]; [living (2)]; [lumping]; [maggot]; [master]; [matriculate]; [meander]; [meddle]; [mole]; [monopolize]; [motherly]; [murrey]; [news-monger]; [offal]; [pap (same quote as mole)]; [pas]; [pastry-cook]; [picklock]; [pinch]; [pittance]; [play]; [plum]; [porter]; [post]; [pragmatical (2)]; [pregnant]; [prick]; [privacy]; [put]; [quarterstaff]; [quilt]; [ragged]; [rake]; [rantipole]; [rap]; [retire]; [rip]; [rogish]; [romp]; [ropedancer]; [run (2)]; [salacious]; [scour]; [scrub]; [scuttle (same quote as retire)]; [seesaw]; [sharper]; [shove]; [shrivel]; [six]; [sizeable]; [slight]; [snip]; [snot]; [spite]; [spruce]; [squash]; [squirt]; [squirter]; [stark]; [state]; [steadiness]; [stick]; [stirrer]; [stock]; [strict]; [stroke]; [strongfisted]; [stunted]; [suit]; [surtout]; [swimmingly]; [swing (2)]; [swinging]; [talebearing]; [thwack (2)]; [tick]; [tight]; [titbit]; [trangram]; [traverse]; [troublesome]; [tumbler]; [turn]; [turnpike]; [twang]; [tweague]; [twist]; [understanding]; [unlimited]; [unravel]; [unseasonable]; [unseasonably]; [unsettle]; [upshot]; [wainscot]; [watchfulness (same quote as unlimited)]; [weatherglass]; [whiff]; [wooded]; [wry]; [BKG Note: see edition discussion under Swift]
- [Humble Petition of the Colliers, Cooks....] To the Right Honourable the Mayor and aldermen of the City of London: The Humble Petition Of the Colliers, Cooks, Cook-Maids, Black-Smiths, Jack-Makers, Brasiers, and Others, Sheweth. 1716, London: printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane; [BKG Note: published anonymously; per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.147, citations include: [culinary], [rectual]]; [necessitous]; [unchastity]; OR in Vol. 3 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst. [Teerink No. 66.] [BKG Note: see edition discussion under Swift]
- [It Cannot Rain but it Pours, or London Strowed with Rarities] in Vol. 3 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst; [risibility]; [shambles]; [tenacious]; [wend]; [BKG Note: see edition discussion under Swift]
- [Know Your Self] in A supplement to the miscellaneous works of the late Dr. Arbuthnot. 1751, Glasgow: printed for James Carlile, and sold by the booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland, OR Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 1747. (Poem 1st ed. 1734); [break]; [flag]; [grope]; [rove]; [sacred] (added in 1773 Dict.; follows the verse for break; inexact quote, perhaps from memory); [unequal];
- Practical Rules of Diet in Various Constitutions and Diseases of the Human Body Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies. London, 1736. (Paged after Essay Concerning . . . Aliments, London, 1735.) 1st ed. 1732; abater; abolition; abscess; anasarca; antagonist; anthelminthick; antiscorbutic; apoplexy; apposition; asleep; astriction; atrabilarian; attend; ... curtain; [cut]; ... [launch]; [loquacity]; [mercury]; [prognostick]; [rickety]; [rigour (rigor in quote and text)]; [suppository]; [symposiack]; [taciturnity (same quote as loquacity)]; [untainted]; [vociferation]; [voiture];
- [Reasons Humbly Offered by the Company Exercising the Trade and Mystery of Upholders, Against Part of the Bill for the Better Viewing, Searching and Examining Drugs &c., 1724, London: [s.n.]]; [playdebt]; [reversionary (same quote as playdebt)]; [upholder]; OR in Vol. 3 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London : printed for Charles Bathurst. [Teerink No. 66.] [BKG Note: see edition discussion under Swift]
- Tables of the Grecian, Roman, and Jewish Measures, Weights and Coins (& Preface) Table of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. London, 1727, Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, 1st ed. 1706 (per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p.147, citations include: mensuration); ace; accuracy (Preface); accumbent (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as recumbent); [advantageously]; affront; agree; ale; ambitious; arithmetically; attachment; avoirdupois; awme/aume (def.); baggage; [benefit];[brigandine/brigantine]; [bring]; [browse]; [bull]; charge (added in 1773 Dict.); [clear]; [clerk]; [come]; [communication]; [concealer] [BKG Note: identified, June 2024, as Unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as John Arbuthnot, Tables of Antient Coins, Weights, and Measures, Explained . Davis notes that 1784 and later Dict. editions misattribute the quote to Clarendon.]; [construction]; [current]; [custom]; [dead]; [department]; [diffident]; [disuse]; [earrings]; [empty]; [expunge]; [extremity]; [fair]; [fancy]; [fatness]; [finance]; [footing]; [foppish]; [gauze]; [gender]; [give (2)]; [hand (2)]; [handkerchief]; [hulk]; [hundred]; [indeclinable]; [insurrection]; [integer (same quote as ace)]; [intendant]; [invent]; [keep]; [land]; [leeward]; [lighthouse]; [lodger]; [mainyard]; [make]; [man]; [marine]; [mattress]; [meat]; [merchant-man]; [mite]; [mobility]; [moneychanger]; [mortgage (2)]; [napkin]; [northeast]; [officer]; [oratory]; [ostrich]; [out (quote should read tables rather than fables)]; [over]; [over-board]; pantomime; [paralogism}; [paraphrast]; [pawnbroker (same quote as moneychanger)]; [pertusion]; [pessary]; [piracy]; [pirate]; [plate]; [pleasure]; [pocketbook]; [ponderal]; [praiseworthy]; [preoccupy]; [prescribe (same quote as disuse)]; [press]; [print (same quote as out)]; [prize]; [proportionably]; [provide]; [provoke]; [purpose]; [put (2)]; [reconcilable]; [recumbent (same quote used for accumbent, added in 1773 Dict.)]; [renegade]; [reprimand]; [rostrated]; [sailer/sailor]; [salary]; [scratch]; [sea]; [seaboat]; [seafaring]; [searisque]; [secret]; [sedan]; [set]; [settle]; [shameful]; [shiness]; [shipwreck]; [shipwright]; [short]; [sideboard]; [slack]; [southeast]; [spleened]; [spyboat]; [squadron]; stageplayer (new headword in 1773 Dict., quote was under stage in 1755 Dict.); [stake]; [stand]; [standard]; [staple]; [stipulate]; [stop]; [strike]; [stripe]; [subdivision]; [sucessour (successour in 1773 Dict.)]; [suction]; [surely]; [take (3)]; [talent]; [tax]; [tear]; [temple]; [tire]; [toll]; [trade]; [trade-wind]; [troy-weight/troy}; [tunnage]; [turn]; [variegate]; [vection/vectitation]; [view]; [unnavigable]; [water]; [wheaten]; [work]; [worship]; [yield (2)]; [BKG Note: there are about 237 cites of this title, generally not listed here. The approximately 150 cites of only "Arbuthnot" that were concluded to be from this title are listed above in brackets.]
- [Dedication to the King] in Table of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. London, 1727, Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; [cates]; [far (same quote as cates)]; [invasive]; [plain (inexact quote, perhaps from memory)]; [raise]; [sterling (cited as C. Arbuthnot)]; [sum (cited as C. Arbuthnot)]; [BKG Note: the Dedication is signed by Charles Arbuthnot (1705-1731), Student of Christ Church, Oxen. (a son of J.A.); per 1731 GMag., p.540 "A gentleman of excellent accomplishments." George Aitken, in The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, 1892, says that Charles entered St. Peters College in Westminster in 1720 and Oxford in 1724, from which he took his B.A. in 1728 and M.A. in 1731 and had entered the church; his death may have been from wounds previously suffered in a duel.]
- To Pope; Letters & Preface: 1739 Works, Vol. V (or 1741 or 1743 reprint): The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. V. Containing an authentic edition of his letters. 1739, London: printed for T. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row; despisable (Sept. 7. 1714); euthanasia ( July 17, 1734); true (July 9, 1715);
- [To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain, a Lilliputian Ode] in Vol. 4 of Miscellanies. In four volumes. By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The fourth edition corrected: with several additional pieces in verse and prose. 1742-46, London: printed for Charles Bathurst; [stride]; [BKG Note: by John Gay: asterisked in the Miscllanies as not by Swift]
- [To Swift]; The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. V. Containing an authentic edition of his letters. 1739, London: printed for T. Cooper in Pater-Noster-Row; precipitate (in 1773 Dict., corrected from a cite "Pope to Swift" in the 1755 Dict.; an Arbuthnot P.S. to a December 5, 1732 letter from Pope to Swift);
- Martinus Scriblerus [by Arbuthnot and Pope] in The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. III. Part II. Containing the Dunciad, Book IV. And the memoirs of Scriblerus. Never before printed.. 1742, London: printed for R. Dodsley, and sold by T. Cooper; [BKG Note: the following headwords are cited as "Arbuthnot" in the 1755 Dict. but appear to be from this title; cringe; crural; dead; door; effossion; flexor (same quote as cringe); incapacitate; individuality; intrust; minor; paternity; pathognomick; scrapper; seat; seal (cited as Arb.); show; state; swift; undismayed (cited as Arbuth.); [BKG Note: See also the Martinus Scriblerus page.]
- Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem in The works of Alexander Pope Esq; Vol. III. Part I. Containing the Dunciad, and notes of Scriblerus. 1742, London : printed for Henry Lintot; unwriting (Prolegomena to the Dunciad,)
- Arbuthnot (no work cited); alcohol; aliment; amoniacal; amphibious; analysis; anodyne; anxiety; artery; arthritic; astringency; bloat; catotropical; caustick; caution; child; chilliness; chylopoetick; chylous; circumvolution; clever; colick; consolidate; constringe; contonuity; corn; corrode; counterpoison; crudity; cully; culmiferous; cutaneous; demulcent; depletion; derive; detergent; dilator; discoloration; disquisition; dissolvent; dissolver (2); distention; diuretic; do; dose; dryness; edematose; emollient (2); emollients; emulate; entirely; eructation; essential; evacuate; exagitate; excoriate; expectorate; exposition; extravasation; febrifuge; fermentative; flabby; flatulency; flatulent;fluidity; flux; fold; foment; forerunner; formation; formerly; fumigation; function; gape (2); give; gluttony; good (incorrect attribution in the 1773 Dict., the cite for Ascham in the 1755 Dict. is correct); gravel; greensickness; grinder; gruel; gullet; headach; healthy; heavy; hold; honey; hydromel; hydropical; imbiber; imeability; impervious; imposthumate; impotent; impureness/impurity; incide; incrassate; incubation; incurable; ineptitude; inflexibility; influx; inguenal; inoculation; insignificant; inspiration; intermediate; interstice; intestinal; intimately; intolerant; intort; intoxicate; irritation; juice; kernel; laceration; lactescent; languid; lenitive; leucophlegmatic; lineament; lixivial; loose; mace; macerate; mastication; maw; meseraick; morbid; morbifical/morbifick; most; mud; muriatick; muscular; mustard; neutral; neutrimental; offensive; oscillatory; oxymel; painful; pale; pailiative; pancreatick; pannicle/pannick; paralytical (2); paraphrenitus; paroxism; pass (2); passage; pease; peccant; peril; peripneumony; peristaltick; perpetual; perspiration; perspire; petechial; pile; pipe; plenitude; plethoretick/plethorick; plethory; posset; potherb; press; pressure; preventive; projectile; promote; promptness; propension/propensity; proper; prostration; prove; ptisan; pulmonary (2); pungency; purge (2); pus; pustule; quadruped; quadruple; quantity; radical; ramification; react; receiver; recently; regenerate; remainder; removal; reparation; repast; restrict; restrictions; retort; rice; rumination; runnet; sanguification; sanguineous; sap; saponacous; scabrous; scarification; sciatical; scissile; scissor; scorbutic; scraggy; scrofulous; scurvy; secern; sedentary; semifluid; sensibly; separable; serosity; serum; settle; sheath; shell; shorten; shrink; siliquose; similarity; sirop/sirup; siziness; sleeoiness; slender; slippery; small; smart; smoke; sneeze; so; soap; solid; soluble; sourness; souterrain; spasm; specifical/specific; spinal; spittle; splendor; spoonful; sporadical; spring; springy; sprucebeer; stagger; stagnate; starve; steel; strainer; stricture; strong; strongly; subclavian; subduer; subject; sudorifick (2); superaddition; sure; suture; sweat; temper; tenderness; tenesmus; tepid; thin 92); thinness; thoracick; thread; throw (2); tie; tinge; tingle; titillation; tone; tophaceous; topical; transfuse; translate; translation; transparency; tumefaction; turn (2); vapid; vaporous; vellicate; ventricle; verge; vertigo; vetch; villous; viscidity; ulceration; unaltered; undergo; unlock; unperspirable; unputrified; unrefreshed; unsalted; unsound; void; volatility; vomit (2); urine; wateriness; wax; what; wine; wool; yellowness; youth; [BKG Note: the Arbuthnot citations without a work cited, that are not indicated in brackets under a title above, appear to be from either Aliments or Diet.]
- I have launched out of my subject on this article. Arbuth.
- He saw his monkey picking the seal wax from a letter. Arb.
- The dwarf kept the gates of the show room. Arbuthnot.
- Few recovered of those that were trepanned. Arbuthnot.
- He aim’d a blow against his undismay’d adversary. Arbuth.