James Currie (physician) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/05/2019

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00:01:37 1 Family and education
00:03:12 2 Virginia
00:04:47 3 Medical publications
00:06:28 4 Anthology of Robert Burns



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James Currie FRS (31 May 1756 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland – 31 August 1805 in Sidmouth) was a Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever.  A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756–1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland.His early attempt to set up a merchanting business in Virginia was a failure and he returned to Scotland. After qualifying as a medical doctor he established a successful practice in Liverpool, England and after a few years was able to purchase a small estate in Dumfriesshire.  He became a Fellow of the London Medical Society and was a founder member of the Liverpool Literary Society. He was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery and wrote several political letters and pamphlets, including one to William Pitt, which made him a number of enemies.
Throughout his life he was dogged by illness and in 1804 he became seriously unwell.  In an effort to find a cure,  he relinquished his Liverpool practice and went to Bath, Clifton and finally Sidmouth, where he died on 31 August 1805 at age 49.