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Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
Garth, Sir Samuel. An English physician and poet; born in Yorkshire (?), 1661, or at Bolam, Durham, 1660; died in London (?), Jan. 18, 1719. His medical practice made him famous; still more so the ‘Dispensary’ (1699), a polemic poem, written to sustain the physicians in a contemporary war upon the apothecaries. He also translated Ovid and made stinging epigrams.