Edward Baynard (physician)
Edward Baynard (born 1641, fl. 1719), was an English physician and poet.
Baynard was probably born at
Sir John Floyer's treatise on cold bathing, entitled The ancient Psychrolousia revived (1702), has appended to it a letter from Baynard "containing an Account of many Eminent Cures done by the Cold Baths in England; together with a Short Discourse of the wonderful Virtues of the Bath Waters on decayed Stomachs, drank Hot from the Pump." Baynard's popular work entitled Health, a Poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve, and restore it. To which is annex'd The Doctor's Decade, was published at London in 1719, 8vo. The fourth edition appeared in 1731; the fifth, corrected, in 1736; the seventh in 1742; the eighth without date; and the ninth at Manchester in 1758. Another edition, also called the ninth, was published at London in 1764. The preface, partly in verse and partly in prose, is mainly directed against drunkenness; and the poem itself is made up of homely medical advice. Baynard has two papers in the Philosophical Transactions, one of them being on the "Case of a Child who swallowed two Copper Farthings."
His only daughter was Ann Baynard.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Baynard, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.