Published February, 2010
By John Chalmers
Publisher: NMSE - Publishing Ltd
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Andrew Duncan (1744-1828) was a remarkable figure in a remarkable period of history - the Scottish Enlightenment. As a young doctor he attended the poet Robert Fergusson in his terminal illness. In the face of opposition, he founded a Chair of Medical Jurisprudence and Public Health in Edinburgh, the first in Britain.

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