258 CHAPTER 47. 
which difeafe was highly epidemical at that^ 
place, foon after his fettling there. But he 
incurred the cenfure of the faculty, by his 
pretenfions to a noftrum. He publiflied 
*^ An Account of an improved Method of 
treating the Small-pox, in a Letter to 
Sir T^homas Parky NSyB^LVt.'' 8°. 1737. 
pp. 52. By this traft it appears, that his 
medicine was of the antiphlogiftic -kind, and 
his regimen the cool one, which at that 
time had been adopted by very few, as ge- 
neral' pradice. 
Dr. Deering fhewed his attachment to 
his botanical purfuits, by his affiduity in 
coUedling fuch ample materials for his Ca- 
talogue in lefs than two years after iixing at 
Nottingham. He publifhed it under the fol- 
lowing title : 
A Catalogue of Plants naturally 
growing and commonly cultivated indivers 
Parts of England ^ more efpecially about 
*^ Nottingham: containing the moll: known 
Latin and Englijh Names of the feveral 
" Plants ; the Tribe they belong to , the 
Time of their flowering ; and of thofe 
w^^hich are either Officinals or otherwift,, 
of 
