Christopher Bennet

[1] Bennet's life was cut short by consumption, at the age of 38, on 30 April 1655.

[3] It deals with various forms of wasting disease, concentrating more with what would be now called pathology than on treatment.

It makes constant reference to cases observed and to dissections, rather than to authority.

[1] The book gives the first illustration of an inhaler (the term itself was due to John Mudge in the 18th century).

[5] Bennet also edited Health's Improvement, or Rules for preparing all sorts of Food by Thomas Muffett, London 1655.