Background
Balguy was born at Derwent Hall, Derbyshire, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1731, and Doctor of Medicine
Balguy was born at Derwent Hall, Derbyshire, and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and Saint John"s College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1731, and Doctor of Medicine
Street John"s College.
In 1750. He practised at Peterborough, and was secretary of the literary club there. He contributed to the " Philosophical Transactions, and in 1741 he published, anonymously, a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio"s Decameron. This was the best translation in English at the time and was reprinted several times.
He wrote some medical essays, and particularly a treatise
De Morbo Miliari " (Lond 1758)
The Decameron, Or, Ten Days" Entertainment, of Boccaccio By Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Balguy
An Account of the Dead Bodies of a Manitoba and Woman, Which Were Preserved 49 Years in the Moors in Derbyshire.
