page_title: Physician writer
section_title: 17th century
hierarchical_section_title: Physician writer / 17th century
caption_attribution_description: Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius)
context_page_description: Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
  The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
context_section_description: Patrick Abercromby (1656–c.1716) Scottish antiquarian, noted for being physician to King James VII (II of England)
  John Arbuthnot (1667–1735) one of Queen Anne's physicians and an associate of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope in the Scriblerus Club
  Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) British writer with mastery in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric.
  Samuel Garth (1661–1719) British author and translator of classics
  Paul Fleming (1609–1640) was a lyricist he stood in the front rank of German poets
  Giulio Mancini (1559–1630) papal physician, art collector, and author of treatises on painting, nobility, dancing, government, and health
  Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist who lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works; became famous (or infamous) for The Fable of the Bees
  Francesco Redi (1626–97) Italian poet, best known work being Bacchus in Tuscany
  Angelus Silesius, né Johannes Scheffler (1624–77) German mystic and poet who wrote the lyrics to many Christian hymns
  Henry Vaughan (1622–1695) Welsh metaphysical poet
  John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher, father of liberalism and one of the most influential thinkers.
caption: Silesius
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