Dr George Wallis 1738 - 1802
Dr George Wallis , apprenticed to his father by indenture 1st Jan 1755 for eight years. Apothecary (1770,1). register of Aberdeen university -- George Wallis (Chirurgus. Eng) admitted as doctor of medicine on July 26, 1777. He is described as being of Yorks. His sponsors were Drs. Kelly and Krohn of London. An unknown person has added some handwritten annotations to the register. All I (RW) can make out without the aid of a magnifying glass is that George was physician to the Medical Asylum in London in 1783. Surgeon. 1775 The Mercantile Lovers, a dramatic satire (in five acts and in prose) by George Wallis M.D. published in London (York). (Catalogue of the British Library) Kentish Gazette 07 July 1779 (Price 1s. 6d. amongst other places 1778 'An essay on the evil consequences attending injudicious bleeding in pregnancy -- with an address in replication to the Monthly Reviewers" by George Wallis M.D. published in London. (There was a second edition in 1781). (catalogue of the British Library) 1790 On March 8, 1790 George Wallis M.D. delivered an Annual Oration before the Medical Society, which was published in the same year. (Catalogue of the British Library) The Scots Magazine 01 August 1791 New books Medicine Annual Oration, delivered March 8, 1790. before the Medical Society, Bolt court, Fleet street, London, by George Wallis, M.D. one of the fellows, and lecturer on the theory and practice of physic. 4t0. 2s. 6d. Robinsons. Newcastle Courant 16 March 1793 Tuesday next will be published, IN ONE VERY LARGE VOLUME, OCTAVO, Price Seven Shillings and Sixpence, bound, THE ART of PREVENTING DISEASES, and restoring HEALTH, founded on rational principles, and adapted to presons of every capacity. In this Work not only the uses of particular medicines are pointed out, but also the modes of application, whereby all the dangerous consquences may be avoided; and to which is prefixed, an explanatory preface, with a copious index of reference, and the meaning of all techincal terms. By GEORGE WALLIS, M.D.S.M.S. Editor of the last Edition of Motherby's Medical Dictionary, and Sydenham's Works, with Notes, etc etc Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson,m Paternoster row. George Wallis. The Art of Preventing Diseases, and Restoring Health, Founded on Rational Principles, and Adapted to Persons of Every Capacity. New York: Samuel Campbell, 1794. MD - obtained Aberdeen Uni. of London (practising after 1776), formerly of York, Physician, Apothecary, & author. RC. Published dramatic pieces satires and medical tracts. Possibly... "Wallis, George (Male) Address(es): York Date: 1773 Subscribed to The Macaroni. A Comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in York, 1773, HITCHCOCK, Robert. York Subject: drama Books: 2 Copies " Ancestry.com show an entry: Wallis, George (Male) Address: Red Lion square Date: 1798 Society Name: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce Member status (including offices held): Member Degrees (no university given) with date: M.D. Appears in list of members, [Society of Arts, 1798] Transactions of the Society instituted at London, for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with the Premiums offered in the year 1798. Vol. XVI. pp.377-434. A List of the Officers of the Society, and Chairmen of the several Committees, Elected March 22d, 1798. A List of Contributing Members., 1798, London. Printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, Snow-hill. To be had, by Members, of the Register, at the Society's House, in the Adelphi; and sold by Messrs. Robson, J. White, Becket, Johnson, Cadell and Davies, Elmsley and Bremner, Walter, Richardson, Debrett, Sewell, and Taylor. M.DCC.XCVIII. [similar entries are there to cover 1799 and 1800] There is a DNB entry for him. Vol. 20 George Wallis 1740-29 Jan 1802 of Red Lion square, London. 1793 'The Art of preventing diseases and restoring health etc.' by George Wallis M.D. published in London in 1793 - with a second edition in 1796. (Catalogue of the British Library) See-: Gentleman's Magazine 1802 1. p.186 " 05 Nov 1770 Margaret, b 29 Oct 1770 , 2nd dau and 2nd child of George Mason, served apprenticeship with Mr Wallis, druggist, now serves Mr Bacon, apothecary and his wife Elizabeth Of Marygate" cf Ancestry Cd Set St Olave PRs 1650-1785 baptisms 1770 ??? Wellcome Library has: Level Item Stacking Code MS/2764 Reference Number MS.2764 Title Hammond, Jupiter Description Nuptial dialogues (in verse). Contains 'A dialogue between an overfond husband, very desirous of children, and his cunning wife, who pretends often to miscarry, yet is never with child', and 'A dialogue between the surly drunkard and the inflexible termagant'. Extent 1 volume Date 1729 AccessConditions The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. CustodHist On the back cover in calligraphic script 'Wallis Med. 1763'. (?Edward Wallis, M.D. [1709-1782].) On the front cover 'Henry Dixon 1810 March 10' [1787-1876]. From the Pettigrew Collection. AccessStatus Open Acquisition Purchased 1905. AccNo 25675 [Comment: 1763 is too early to be a medical Edward. George, the Lord Mayor's son might have been the author and/or owner]" ------------- DNB ed. 2004 graduated as MD from Aberdeen, "large practice at York". Wrote "Perjury" (satirical) in 1774, and "Alexander and Statira [not sure I have this spelt correctly]" (a mock tragedy, which was played in York, Leeds and Edinburgh). In 1775 after he'd been drummed out of town for "Mercantile Lovers" he moved to Buckingham St., in London. An expurgated version of the play appeared that year in London. He worked as Lecturer on theory and practice of physic. Refs. GM, 1st ser., 72 (1802), 186 T. Gilliland, the dramatic mirror, containing the history of the stage from the earliest period, to the present time, 1 (1808), 608 D.E. Baker, Biographica dramatica, II, A Companion to the playhouse, rev. I. Reed, new edn. rev. S. Jones, 1/2 (1812), 735 Watt, Bibl. Brit. T.K. Munro, the physician as man of letters, science and action (1951), 33 S. Halkett and J. Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain, 4 vols. (1882-8) P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth century medics, 2nd edn. (1988). ---------------- DNB entry Wallis, George (1740-1802), physician and writer, was born at York. Little is known of his early life, but he studied medicine, and, after graduating MD from Aberdeen, obtained a large practice at York. He was much attached to theatrical amusements, and, in addition to other pieces, such as the satirical Perjury (1774), he composed a mock tragedy entitled Alexander and Statira, which was acted at York, Leeds, and Edinburgh. In 1775 a dramatic satire by him, entitled The Mercantile Lovers, was acted at York. Despite its intrinsic merit, the play sketched too plainly the foibles of prominent citizens of the town, and as a result of their resentment, Wallis lost his entire medical practice. He was obliged to move to Buckingham Street, London, where an expurgated edition of the play appeared in the same year. In London he commenced as a lecturer on the theory and practice of physic, and in 1778 published an Essay on the Evil Consequences Attending Injudicious Bleeding in Pregnancy (1781). His other medical writings included: Nosologia methodica oculorum, or, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eyes, Translated and Selected from the Latin of Francis Bossier de Sauvages (1785); The Art of Preventing Diseases and Restoring Health (1793; 2nd edn, 1796), which was translated into German in 1800; and An Essay on the Gout (1798). He also edited the Works of Thomas Sydenham on Acute and Chronic Diseases (2 vols., 1789) and the third edition of George Motherby's Medical Dictionary (1791). Wallis died on 29 January 1802 at Red Lion Square, London. E. I. Carlyle, rev. Rebecca Mills Sources GM, 1st ser., 72 (1802), 186 ¨ T. Gilliland, The dramatic mirror, containing the history of the stage from the earliest period, to the present time, 1 (1808), 608 ¨ D. E. Baker, Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse, rev. I. Reed, new edn, rev. S. Jones, 1/2 (1812), 735 ¨ Watt, Bibl. Brit. ¨ T. K. Monro, The physician as man of letters, science and action (1951), 33 ¨ S. Halkett and J. Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain, 4 vols. (1882–8) ¨ P. J. Wallis and R. V. Wallis, Eighteenth century medics, 2nd edn (1988) c Biographia Dramatica Or a Companion to the Playhouse (etc.) - London ... By David Erskine Baker, Stephens Jones, Isaac Reed "WALLIS Dr George, a phyisician, editor of Sydenham's Works, of the third edition of Motherby's Dictionary, was born at York in 1740. Besides the above, he published several other medical treatises, particularly "The Art of rpeventing Diseases and restoring Health". He was a poet also and a satirist. In 1773, he published, in 4to. The Juvrniliad, satire; and in 1774, Perjury, a poem. Suring his residence in York, he brought on the stage there two dramatic pieces, viz. 1. Mercantile Lovers. Dr. Sat. 8vo,. 1775. 2. Alexander and Sttira. Mock Trag. He died in Red Lion Square, London Jan 30. 1802. ----------------- Nosologia methodica oculorum [electronic resource] : or, a new treatise on the diseases of the eyes. Selected and translated from the Latin of Francis Bossier [sic] de Sauvages. The whole methodically arranged, and the descriptions of modes of cure given, as recited by those Authors who have written professedly on the various subjects herein enumerated. With medical annotations. By George Wallis, M.D. Of Red Lion Square, London, Author of the New Domestic Medicine, or Buchan Improved-A New Treatise on the Gout, &c. &c. AUTHOR/CREATOR Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, Franđcois, 1706-1767. LANGUAGE English. IMPRINT London : printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row, [1785?] PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION [2], vii-xxxii, 318, [10]p. ; 8`. SERIES Eighteenth century collections online. Access Available online find.galegroup.com Eighteenth Century Collections Online Contributors CONTRIBUTOR Wallis, George, 1740-1802.
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| Born: York, Yorks., England 1738 | Baptised: St. Michael Le Belfry, York, Yorks., England 26th Sep 1738
| | Died: Red Lion Square, London, , , England 29th Jan 1802 | Buried:
| | Family: Wallis formerly of Nun Ormsby |
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