Works
In 1798 Dr. Aikin retired from professional life and devoted himself with great industry to various literary undertakings, among which his General Biography (10 vols., 1799–1815) holds a conspicuous place. Besides these, he published Biog. Memoirs of Medicine (1780), Lives of John Selden and Archbishop Usher (1812) and other works. Aside from editing The Monthly Magazine from 1796 to 1807 and Doodley's Annual Register from 1811-1815, he conducted a paper called The Athenaeum from 1807 to 1809, when it was discontinued.
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