Christopher Packe, M.D., was born at St. Alban’s in 1682, and educated at Merchant Taylors’ school. He was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge (Comitiis Regiis) 1717. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1723; and, settling at Canterbury, practised there with much reputation for more than a quarter of a century. Dr. Packe died 15th November, 1749, and was buried in the church of St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury, in the south aisle of which is a floor stone engraved with his name and the date of his death. His son, of both his names, was also a physician, and practised at Canterbury. He was of Peterhouse, Cambridge, M.B. 1751, and dying 21st October, 1800, aged seventy-two, was buried in the same vault as his father, and is commemorated on the same slab. Dr. Packe the elder was the author of—
A Reply to Dr. Gray’s Three Answers to Mr. Worger’s Case. 4to. Canterbury, 1727.

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