Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and academic (born 1652)

Archibald Pitcairne

Scottish physician (1652–1713)

Archibald Pitcairne or Pitcairn was a Scottish physician. He was a physician and poet who first studied law at Edinburgh and Paris graduating with an M.A. from Edinburgh in 1671. He turned his attention to medicine, and commenced to practise in Edinburgh, around 1681. He was…