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Pitcairne, Archibald

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Scottish physician and satirist, born at Edinburgh; studied theology and law, and afterwards at Paris, medicine; he practised in Edinburgh, and became professor at Leyden; returning, he acquired great fame in his native city; in medicine he published a treatise on Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood; being an Episcopalian and Jacobite, he wrote severe satires on all things Presbyterian, e. g . "Babel, or the Assembly, a Poem," 1692 (1652-1713).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pitcairne, Archibald'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pitcairne-archibald.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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