Nathan Alcock (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nathan Alcock was born at Aston, near Runcorn, Cheshire, the second son of David Alcock and his wife Mary n e Breck. David Alcock was a descendent of Bishop John Alcock, the founder of Jesus College, Cambridge. He was educated initially by his parents and then at a local school but he left this school, probably because of his dislike of the schoolmaster. He promised his father that he would qualify in medicine in return for a small estate in Wirral, Cheshire, which was worth about 50 a year. He went to medical school at Edinburgh, and then to Leiden where he was taught by Boerhaave and his contemporaries, Gaubius, Albinus, and Gravesand. He graduated M.D. in 1737.