Abercromby, David
From AngloScottish
| Dates | 1671-c.1701 | ||
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| Location | London | ||
| Vocation | Physician, philosopher | ||
| Place of Birth | Seaton? | ||
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| Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Joined Jesuits in France, where he trained in medicine. Returned to Scotland, and then moved to London (1671) after conversion to Protestantism, where he practised as a physician. Latterly moved to the Netherlands. Wrote medical treatises, including on syphilis (Tuta, ac efficax luis venereae, saepe absque salivatione mercuriali, curandae methodus, 1684) and the pulse (De variatione, ac varietate pulsus observationes, 1685). Published works in defence of both Catholicism (Scolding no scholarship in the abyss, 1669) and Protestantism (Protestancy to be embrac'd, 1682), and philosophical texts (A Discourse of Wit, 1685; Academia scientarium, 1687; A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest, 1690).
