GOOD, JOHN MASON on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born on May 25, 1764, at Epping, Essex, the son of a Nonconformist minister. In he became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connection, and especially by the publication of A History of Medicine (1795), he effected a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary. In 182o he took the diploma of M.D. at Marischal college, Aberdeen. He died at Shepper ton, Middlesex, on Jan. 2, 18 2 7. Good was acquainted with the principal European languages, and also with Persian, Arabic and Hebrew.