Anthony was the son of Francis Anthony. According to the Biographia Britannica he gained a handsome income from the sale of his father"s "Aurum Potabile", or "Drinkable Gold". According to Doctor Munk, he succeeded to the more reputable part of his father"s practice.
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating as Bachelor of Medicine in 1613, Doctor of Medicine
In 1619. He was admitted as a licentiate of the College of Physicians, London, in 1625. A John Anthony served in the civil war, on the parliamentary side, as surgeon to Colonel Sandys (Mercurius Rusticus, ed 1685, p 125). He was the author of a devotional work, The Comfort of the Soul, laid down by way of Meditation.., "by John Anthony, Doctor of Physick, London, 1654, 4to." The same work in the same impression was afterwards issued with a new title-page as "Lucas Redivivus, or the Gospell Physitian, by J. A., Doctor of Physick, London, 1656, 4to." In the British Museum (Sloane Mississippi 489) is a small notebook, bound with the arms of Charles I, entitled Joannis Antonii Praxis Medica, containing notes in Latin on various diseases and their treatment.
In it Paracelsus is quoted as the authority for a certain prescription.
The notes are evidently for private use, not intended for publication, but clearly belong to this John Anthony.
