Hartley, David (1705-1757)

Standard biographical reference entry on David Hartley (1705-1757), the physician-philosopher later known for Observations on Man, verified by direct fetch of the Wikisource transcription (author Leslie Stephen; Volume 25). Confirms Hartley -- not his son David Hartley the Younger the politician -- was a firm believer in Mrs. Stephens's medicine for the stone, a disease from which he was himself an early sufferer, that he wrote pamphlets in her defence and published case reports (his own case numbered 123rd of the 155 he eventually compiled), and that he helped procure her parliamentary grant. Quoted only by paraphrase here rather than verbatim, because a mechanical re-check found this Wikisource page intermittently serves a reCAPTCHA challenge page to unauthenticated automated fetches, which would make a literal verify-quotes block unreliable even though the content was confirmed present by direct interactive fetch. NOTE: the Wikisource transcription renders the pamphlet year as '1726' and the grant year as 'June 1789,' both of which are internally inconsistent with this same entry's other datings and with every other independent source in this bundle (BAUS, Wellcome, Walsh 2023, Keyes 1942), all of which place Hartley's pamphlets in 1738 and the reward in June 1739; these two digits are treated as OCR/transcription errors in the Wikisource text and are not carried into this bundle's dating, which instead uses the cross-corroborated 1738/1739 dates.