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Dates 1701-1743
Location London; Bath
Vocation Physician
Place of Birth Methlick
Marriage Margaret Middleton
Issue Frances; Margaret; John
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Associated with the Jacobite physician Archibald Pitcairne. Served briefly as a tutor in Edinburgh, but moved to London to practice medicine (1701). Returned to Scotland following a breakdown (1705), but moved back to London once he recovered (c.1715). Moved to Bath (1718). Practiced medicine there, while also publishing numerous medical and philosophical treatises.