About John Allen
Lived 1660 – 1741 (aged 80–81). John Allen was a British physician.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.
Biography Allen, the date of whose birth is not positively known, was an M.D., but of what university does not appear. He was admitted extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians on 13 September 1692; practised, and apparently died, at Bridgwater, Somerset.
He died 16 September 1741.
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English physician and inventor
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John Allen was born in 1660.
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John Allen died in 1741 in Bridgwater.
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