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JAMES CURRIE (1756-1805)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:CURRIE (1756-1805)  , Scottish physician and editor of See also:Burns, son of the See also:minister of Kirkpatrick-See also:Fleming, in See also:Dumfries-See also:shire, was See also:born there on the 31st of May 1756 . Attracted by the stories of prosperity in See also:America he went in 1771 to See also:Virginia, where he spent five hard years, much of the See also:time See also:ill and always in unprofitable commercial business . The outbreak of See also:war between the Colonies and See also:England ended any further See also:chance of success, and sailing for See also:home in the See also:spring of 1776 after many delays he reached England a See also:year later . He then proceeded to study See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh, and after taking his degree at See also:Glasgow he settled at See also:Liverpool in 178o, where three years later he became physician to the infirmary . He died at See also:Sidmouth on the 31st of See also:August 18o5 . Among other See also:pamphlets Curriewas the author of Medical Reports on the Effects of See also:Water, See also:Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fevers and Febrile Diseases (1797), which had some See also:influence in promoting the use of cold water affusion, and contains the first systematic See also:record in See also:English of clinical observations with the thermometer . But he is best known for his edition (1800), See also:long regarded as the See also:standard, of See also:Robert Burns, which he undertook in behalf of the See also:family of the poet . It contained an See also:introductory See also:criticism and an See also:essay on the See also:character and See also:condition of the Scottish peasantry . See the Memoir by W . W . See also:Currie, his son (1831) .

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