Quotes:Dickinson, Edmund

Zirkoff, Boris

Dickinson or Dickenson, Edmund. English physician and alchemist, b. in Berkshire, Sept. 26, 1624; d. April 3, 1707. Educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford; became an M.D., 1656. At about this time, he met Theodore Mundanus, a French alchemist, who prompted him to devote himself to the study of chemistry. He practiced medicine for some years in Oxford, settling in London in 1684. As a result of successful treatments he was recommended to King Charles II who appointed him as his physician; the King also built for him a laboratory under the royal bedchamber, 644 with communication by means of a private staircase. It is said that many curious experiments were made there for the edification of the King and the Duke of Buckingham. Dickinson held his office until the abdication of James II, 1688. The remaining years of his life he spent in study and writing. He was buried in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Among his works should be mentioned: *Epistola ad T. Mundanum de Quintessentia Philosophorum, Oxford, 1686 and 1705.—Physica vetus et vera, London, 1702, 4to, a work on which he spent the last years of his life and which expounds an entire system of philosophy. (Cf. Blomber’s Dickinson s Life and Writings, 1737; 2nd ed., 1739.)

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, pp. 643-644