Bernard Connor

With the intention of adopting the medical profession he went to France about 1686, and studied at the universities of Montpelier and Paris, but took the degree of M.D.

[1] When the two sons of Jan Wielopolski of Poland were on the point of returning to their own country, it was arranged that they should be accompanied by Connor.

After some stay at the court of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor he passed through Moravia and Silesia to Kraków and Warsaw.

[1] In 1694 Connor was appointed to attend the king of Poland's only daughter, the Princess Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, who was to travel from Warsaw to Brussels to marry Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

On 27 Nov. 1695 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society; on 6 April 1696 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London, and that year lectured at Cambridge.

[1] The election of a successor to King John Sobieski prompted Connor's The History of Poland, in several letters to persons of quality, giving an account of the ancient and present state of that kingdom, 2 vols.

[1] In 1697 Connor published Evangelium Medici; seu medicina mystica de suspensis naturæ legibus, sive de miraculis; reliquisque en tois bibliois memoratis, quæ medicæ indagini subjici possunt, London, (two editions in the same year), reprinted at Amsterdam 1699.

In this work he tried to show that the miraculous cures performed by Jesus Christ and his apostles may be accounted for on natural principles.