John Burrows

Standard Name: Burrows, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Alicia Tyndal Palmer
The novel is dedicated to John Burrows of Middlesex. ATP 's preface says she believes that novels are the most useful teaching texts of wisdom and virtue, since unlike other genres they are actually read.
Textual Production Mary Fortune
Although stories in Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer and Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper first appeared without attribution, a number of them were soon re-issued under his own name by James Skipp Borlase

Timeline

17 February 1772: Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for...

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17 February 1772

Dr John Burrows was granted a patent for fourteen years of sole rights to a medicine, called Velno's Vegetable Syrup, which was alleged to cure venereal disease.
McAllister, Marie E. “John Burrows and the Vegetable Wars”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 85-102.
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Texts

Sussex, Lucy, and John Burrows. “Whodunit?: Literary Forensics and the Crime Writing of James Skipp Borlase and Mary Fortune”. Bibliographic Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, Vol.
21
, No. 2, 1997, pp. 73-105.