Bryan Robinson (physician)

On 5 May 1712, he was elected fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, having been put forward as a candidate on 24 August 1711.

He practised in Dublin, and probably attended Esther Vanhomrigh (Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa"), who left him a legacy of £15.

His earliest work was a translation of Philippe de La Hire's New Elements of Conick Sections, 1704.

It was attacked by Thomas Morgan in his Mechanical Practice, and defended by the author in a Letter to Dr. Cheyne (with the third enlarged edition of 1738).

Robinson was a follower of Isaac Newton, and tried to account for animal motions by his principles, and to apply them to the treatment of diseases.

He attributed the production of muscular power to the vibration of an ethereal fluid pervading the animal body.

[1] Robinson also wrote a Dissertation on the Æther of Sir Isaac Newton (Dublin, 1743; London, 1747); and an Essay upon Money and Coins (1758), posthumously published by his sons, Christopher and Robert.