A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Borlase, Edmund
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BORLASE, EDMUND.
Historian and Physician.
d. about 1682.
Admitted 27 August, 1638.
Third son of Sir John Borlase, of Dublin (Lord Justice in Ireland, 1640—3). He was educated at Dublin and Leyden, where he took the degree of Doctor in Physic in 1650. He subsequently practised in Chester, where he wrote a treatise on Latham Spa in Lancashire and the Cures Affected by it, published in 1670; but the work by which he is best known is The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England, and A Brief Account of the Rebellion of 1641, with the Original of the Universitie of Dublin and the Colledge of Physicians, published in London in 1675. In it he introduces an account of the diseases prevalent in Ireland, and their remedies. There is no record of Borlase's death, but he was alive in 1682.