biography
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| lived:
| (1710–90)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, WC Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, and in 1740 set up as a physician in Glasgow, where he was appointed to the chair of medicine (1751). In 1755 he moved to Edinburgh, occupying a series of chairs in chemistry and medicine. He is largely responsible for the recognition of the important part played by the nervous system in health and disease. |
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