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See also: minister of Kirkpatrick-See also: Fleming, in Dumfries-See also: shire, was See also: born there on the 31st of May 1756
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Attracted by the stories of prosperity in See also: America he went in 1771 to Virginia, where he spent five hard years, much of the See also: time See also: ill and always in unprofitable commercial business
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The outbreak of war between the Colonies and See also: England ended any further chance of success, and sailing for home in the spring of 1776 after many delays he reached England a See also: year later
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He then proceeded to study See also: medicine at See also: Edinburgh, and after taking his degree at See also: Glasgow he settled at Liverpool in 178o, where three years later he became physician to the infirmary
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He died at Sidmouth on the 31st of See also: August 18o5
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Among other See also: pamphlets Curriewas the author of Medical Reports on the Effects of See also: Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fevers and Febrile Diseases (1797), which had some influence in promoting the use of cold water affusion, and contains the first systematic record in See also: English of clinical observations with the thermometer
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But he is best known for his edition (1800), long regarded as the See also: standard, of Robert Burns, which he undertook in behalf of the See also: family of the poet
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It contained an See also: introductory See also: criticism and an essay on the character and condition of the Scottish peasantry
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See the Memoir by W
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Currie, his son (1831)
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