John Quincy was apprenticed to an apothecary, and afterwards practised medicine as an apothecary in London. He died in 1722.
John Quincy knew little of clinical medicine, and was only skilful in the arrangement of drugs in prescriptions. He considered dried millipedes good for tuberculous lymphatic glands, but thought the royal touch for scrofula superstitious. He received the degree of M.D. from the University of Edinburgh for his ‘Medicina Statica Britannica’ (1712),
In 1719 he published a scurrilous ‘Examination’ of John Woodward’s ‘State of Physick and Diseases.’ A reply, entitled ‘An Account of Dr. Quincy’s Examination, by N. N. of the Middle Temple,’ speaks of him as a bankrupt apothecary, a charge to which he made no reply. In the same year he published an edition of the Loimologia of Nathaniel Hodges, and a collection of ‘Medico-physical Essays’ on ague, fevers, gout, leprosy, king’s evil, and other diseases.
In 1723 his ‘Prælectiones Pharmaceuticæ,’ lectures which had been delivered at his own house, were published with a preface by Dr. Peter Shaw.
From: The education and cultural interests of the Apothecary:
Southwick parish register:
