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Dates 1694-1739
Location London
Vocation Physician
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Mary de Banddissin; Mary Fielding
Issue
Place of birth Source W. Munck (ed.), The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2 vols (London, 1878), i, 507-509

Studied at Edinburgh and Leiden. Admitted Licentiate to the Royal College of Physicians of London (1694). Served as physician to the fleet (1690s). A voluminous writer, he published many works of medicine and philosophy. Developed a secret cure of dysentery, which he provided to the Royal Navy and which made his fabulously rich and sought-after. Appointed physician at the Greenwich hospital (1731).