FRE. 
troops under the command of the — of Ormond, into 
Flanders. On ufion of in the following year 
he returned to Lon ndon, ¥ wher re he chiefly refided afterwards, 
and rofe to high profeffional Ieee of Pi En 1716 he was re- 
ceived as fellow of the Col yireians, 
year publifhed the firft and third Aeon of Hippocrates on 
epidemics, with the addition of a commentary on fevers, in 
nine parts, under the title of “ Hippocratis de morbis po- 
pularibus liber primus et tertius: his accommodavit novem 
de Febribus Commentarios I. Freind M. D.” s is a per- 
formance of great eruditi a per eS view of 
the practice af im Gre h he was for 
ek pliyfiians of whic 
the moft part a zealous defende e was wacked vith 
unbecoming acrimony, on account of fome obfervations made 
) 
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ble obfervations, deduced a4 from pee aad sane 
elegantly expreffed, which uae oie to eftablifh the 
practice for which he contended. paffed through the 
offices of the college, and in 1720 cleared an Harveian 
oo. a was much appla 
o Dr. Freind had ee ae himfelf to medical and 
philofophicel cae with great reputation and fuccefs; but 
in 1722, for what reafons we know not, he was taguced. © to 
engage in political life, a. er into parliament as bur- 
gels for Launcefton. nections were with ne party 
at this time in oppofition to oGhe court ; and as 
were critical, and his attachinents s warm, his co onduét foon 
o 
viven the miniftry a ri a the fu seo of the habeas 
rpus act, feveral pe £ confe anes were committed 
whom was our phyfician, cl th fufpi 
The oppéfition fuggelted ‘that. the 
only ground for this was his- ay claret condu& ;_ bu 
Walpole declared privately to & ons, that “there 
root of. the blackett tee againft him. 
es of a fimilar kind, ,) w 
ane a 
and three others of his brethren. e appear 
King’s bench in. November following, and was finally dif- 
char ed. .For the honour o ad, howe 
nefs, that phytic 
miniiter until Dr. Freind was fet at liberty. He afterwards 
made over to Dr. Freind 5000 guineas which he had received 
as tra. 
e 
2 fnall-pox, entitled, «¢ De quibufdam 
iftola,”’ 1723. 
an of Fie work, of which 
firft part appeared in_1725 fecond in 1726. 
This “was titled “ The Hiftory of Phylie from the’ ‘Time 
'Gen. Biog. Spren 
of thofe in modern ‘ufe. In 163 
‘to occupy the poft of interpreter to the 
ba a ‘ his patron, with whom 
In 
Durin ring his confine- _ 
FRY 
.. Galen to the oo of ‘the Sixteenth Century, 
c y with regard Praétice 5 in a 2 {fcourfe written 
De. Mead,” ey This work was ‘fug- 
abians, and 
each in point of ane aid pralice ‘occafionly interfpert- 
tio This work was much read, both 
at home” ae abroad, in lata here ae tobe a 
or It was attacked, however, from - feveral 
TS. "Sir ees Peet laced et ‘anonymouf- 
, atradct, entitle ind’s: Hifto- 
ty of Phyfic, fe me falfe reprefentation Ancient 
and Modern Phyficians, by Cc. W. D. : And 
fe celebrated John Le Clerc 
ade fone ani 
errors of Le Clerc, pointed out . Freind, ae however, 
pa eee as well as fome miftakes of his cen- 
Whatever political fufpicions might have fallen upon Dr. 
Freind in con nfequence of hi is he the ftain of d if. 
affeCtion to t lit 
by 
ae of Shere to quee BG aol 
hi 
1728, i: is age, much fei 
all; and the care which his ais afterwards extended to 
his widow and his fon, evinced the efteem i in which h e had 
been a god bas prince. 
orks of Dr. Freind were publifhed by Dr. 
Latin verfion he Hiftor 
author by ae editor. 
fame colleGtion have alfo been publithed. 
ngel, Gefchichte der Aran 
FREINDORF, in Geography, a town of Auttria, fous 
miles §.E. of. Tulla. 
- FREINSHEIM, Joun, in Biography, was bora at 
Ulm i in 1608. He ftudied at various German univerfities, 
and was patronized by Matthew Berneger. 
Wien ina fli volume, London a: 3 together with 4. 
tary of Phoiic, eae ile of the 
Several plea jee of the 
Di Die. Hist, 
ire. anguages was very | 
ae comprehended not only thofe which are now dead, a 
which have acquired the title of ‘learned, but likewrfe man 
634 he was invited to Me 
ing? ene 3 
ars, and returned cee ried: the 
he took up his reidence. 
profeffor of politics fa elo- 
a én- 
here he continued three ye 
2 br ees ed 
and after five years’ queen Chri 
EE ograbher Ta io e was invited to Heidelberg’ by 
the eleétor Charles “Lewis, oa created elec re ounfellor, 
and honorary profeffor of the uniyerfity. In this fituation, 
tale 
and efteem of niany per H 
the age of fifty-+wo. - Ava eritie he iDattrated with leo 
