Henry Levett

In 1710 he wrote a paper at the request of Dr John Freind urging the use of "cathartics" (purgatives) in treating smallpox.

Levett had made a study of two cases, and refers to those in his treatise, written in Latin, which Freind reprinted in its entirety in his collected works of 1733.

[4] Levett is also believed have authored the short memoir of Dr William Wagstaffe, a well-known physician of the age.

In it, the author of the sketch on Wagstaffe (presumably Levett) is referred to as "an eminent Physician, no less valued for his skill in his profession, which he showed in several useful treatises, than admired for his Wit and Facetiousness in Conversation".

In that capacity he purchased 10 candlesticks and a pair of snuffers and stands from the goldsmith Matthew Cooper that are still in the collection of the college.