Nathaniel Henshaw

Nathaniel Henshaw M.D. (baptised 1628 – 1673) was an English physician and original Fellow of the Royal Society.

Life He was a younger son of Benjamin Henshaw (died 4 December 1631) and his wife Anne, daughter of William Bonham of London; Thomas Henshaw was his elder brother. He first studied medicine at the University of Padua in 1649. concerned with "fresh air" and its medical value, and a preliminary introduction of the concept of hyperbaric medicine. A second edition (London, 1677) was printed by order of the Royal Society, at a meeting held on 1 March 1677, having been prepared for the press by Thomas Henshaw. It was reviewed in Philosophical Transactions (xii. 834–5) by Henry Oldenburg.