I. A Discourse on the Plague, with a preparatory Account of Malignant
Fevers, in two Parts; containing an Explication of the Nature of those
Diseases, and the Method of Cure, Octavo, 1720

II.  A Treatise on the Small-Pox, in two Parts; containing an Account of the Nature, and several Kinds of that Disease; with the proper Methods of Cure:  And a Dissertation upon the modern Practice of Inoculation, Octavo, 1722

III.  A Treatise on Consumptions, and other Distempers belonging to the
Breast and Lungs, Octavo, 1724

VI.  A Treatise on the Spleen and Vapours; or Hyppocondriacal and Hysterical Affections; with three Discourses on the Nature and Cure of the Cholic, Melancholly and Palsy, Octavo, 1725

V. A Critical Dissertation upon the Spleen, so far as concerns the following Question, viz.  Whether the Spleen is necessary or useful to the animal possessed of it? 1725

VI.  Discourses on the Gout, Rheumatism, and the King’s Evil; containing an Explanation of the Nature, Causes, and different Species of those Diseases, and the Method of curing them, Octavo, 1726

VII.  Dissertations on a Dropsy, a Tympany, the Jaundice, the Stone, and the Diabetes, Octavo, 1727

Single POEMS by Sir Richard Blackmore.

I. His Satire against Wit, Folio, 1700

II.  His Hymn to the Light of the World; with a short Description of the
Cartoons at Hampton-Court, Folio, 1703

III.  His Advice to the Poets, Folio, 1706

IV.  His Kit-Kats, Folio, 1708

It might justly be esteemed an injury to Blackmore, to dismiss his life without a specimen from his beautiful and philosophical Poem on the Creation.  In his second Book he demonstrates the existence of a God, from the wisdom and design which appears in the motions of the heavenly orbs; but more particularly in the solar system.  First in the situation of the Sun, and its due distance from the earth.  The fatal consequences of its having been placed, otherwise than it is.  Secondly, he considers its diurnal motion, whence the change of the day and night proceeds; which we shall here insert as a specimen of the elegant versification, and sublime energy of this Poem.

  Next see Lucretian Sages, see the Sun,
  His course diurnal, and his annual run. 
  How in his glorious race he moves along,
  Gay as a bridegroom, as a giant strong. 
  How his unweari’d labour he repeats,
  Returns at morning, and at eve retreats;
  And by the distribution of his light,
  Now gives to man the day, and now the night: 
  Night, when the drowsy swain, and trav’ler cease
  Their daily toil, and sooth their limbs with ease;
  When all the weary sons of woe restrain
  Their yielding cares with slumber’s silken chain,
  Solace sad grief, and lull reluctant pain. 
  And while the sun, ne’er covetous of rest,
  Flies with such rapid speed from east