Andrew Duncan (351)
Election date: 1774Andrew Duncan (17 October 1744-5 July 1828) was a physician and member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1774. Born in Pinkerton, Scotland to merchant and shipmaster Andrew Duncan and his wife Catherine, Duncan pursued an education at St. Andrews University, earning a M.A. degree in 1762. Later that year he went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He served as president of the Royal Medical Society in 1767 before traveling to China as a surgeon on the East India Trading Company ship, Asia. He turned down a lucrative offer to make a second journey to instead begin lecturing at St. Andrews. He earned his M.D. in 1769 and became a licentiate of the Edinburgh College of Physicians the following year. That year he also published his first work, Elements of Therapeutics. In 1776, he began teaching a course on chronic diseases, leading him to found a public dispensary that provided free medicine and medical advice to the poor (later the Royal Public Dispensary). Meanwhile, he also founded the Aesculapian Club and later the Harveian Club in 1782, both of which provided him with the necessary connections to begin publishing his journal of medicine, Medical and Philosophical Commentaries. In 1790, he served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and two years later proposed the construction of a public mental asylum which was then built in 1807. The following year, he was decorated with the Freedom of Edinburgh for his work on the asylum as well as his dispensary. In 1821, he was made First Physician to the King in Scotland and was elected president of the Edinburgh Medical Chirurgical Society. He died a few years later and was buried in Buccleuch churchyard in Edinburgh. (DNB)
Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.001
An account of the life and writings of the late Alexr. Monro Senr. ... delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1780.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: printed for C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and C. Dilly, London, 1780.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1780 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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351.002
An account of the life, writings, and character, of the late Dr John Hope, ... delivered as the Harveian oration at Edinburgh, for the year 1788.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: printed for Charles Elliot, and for C. Elliot and T. Kay, London, 1789.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1789 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.003
An address to the students of medicine at Edinburgh, introductory to a course of lectures on the theory and practice of physic : delivered 1st November 1776.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: [s.n.], [1776]
Subjects:
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine
Editions:
1x 1776 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.004
An alphabetical list of the materia medica : intended as a synopsis of lectures on that subject.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: [s.n.], [1784]
Subjects:
Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1784 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.005
The American dispensatory : containing the operations of pharmacy : together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine : illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's fourth edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus : by John Redman Coxe, M.D. professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania : member of the American Philosophical Society, and of the Batavian Society of Sciences at Harlem.
Creator(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864 (Author) | Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Contributor) | Lewis, William, 1708-1781 (Contributor)
Publication:
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, No. 41, South Second Street, 1810.
Subjects:
Dispensatories.
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References:
Shaw-Shoemaker 19883
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1810 (Philadelphia), 1x 1818 (Philadelphia)
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Two editions in Philadelphia: one in 1810 and one in 1818.
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351.006
De laudibus Gulielmi Harvei oratio, habita in ædibus Academiae Medicae, ... ipsis calendis Aprilis, 1778, ... Auctore Andrea Duncan, M.D. ...
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgi: venales prostant apud C. Elliot, 1778.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1778 (Edinburgi [Edinburgh])
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.007
Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de purgantium natura et usu : quam, Annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Andreae Shaw, Universitatis Andreanae rectoris inclyti, et S. S. Theologiae Professoris : nec non Amplissimi senatus academici consensu, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Andreas Duncan, A.M. Britannus.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgi: apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, [1769]
Subjects:
Laxatives -- Early works to 1800.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1769 (Edinburgi [Edinburgh])
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.008
The Edinburgh new dispensatory : containing I. the elements of pharmaceutical chemistry : II. the materia medica : or, an account of the natural history, qualities, operations and uses, of the different substances employed in medicine : III. the pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the new editions of the London (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) pharmacopoeias : with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each : together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe : the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine : with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principa pharmaceutical instruments : being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.
Creator(s):
Lewis, William, 1708-1781 (Author) | Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Editor)
Publication:
Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, in Second-Street, [1791]
Subjects:
Pharmacopoeias.
| Pharmaceutical chemistry.
| Dispensatories.
| Materia medica.
| Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
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References:
Evans 23503
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1791 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note:
One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.009
Elements of therapeutics : by Andrew Duncan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: printed by Balfour, Auld, and Smellie, for W. Drummond, [1770]
Subjects:
Therapeutics -- Early works to 1800.
| Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1770 (Edinburgh), 1x 1773 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.010
Heads of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: [s.n.], 1776.
Subjects:
Medicine -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1776 (Edinburgh), 1x 1781 (Edinburgh), 1x 1782 (Edinburgh), 1x 1785 (Edinburgh), 1x 1786 (Edinburgh), 1x 1789 (Edinburgh), 1x 1790 (Edinburgh), 1x 1792 (Edinburgh), 1x 1794 (Edinburgh), 1x 1795 (Edinburgh), 1x 1796 (Edinburgh), 1x 1801 (Edinburgh)
Editions Note:
Twelve editions, all in Edinburgh: one each in 1776, 1781, 1782, 1785, 1786, 1789, 1790, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1801.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.011
A letter to Dr Robert Jones of Caermarthenshire, in answer to the account which he has published of the case of Mr John Braham Isaacson student of medicine, and to the injurious aspersions which he has thrown out against the physicians who attended Mr Isaacson.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: printed for C. Elliot : sold by T. Longman, T. Cadell, and C. Dilly, London, 1782.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1782 (Edinburgh)
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One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.012
Medical and philosophical commentaries : by a society of physicians in Edinburgh.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Editor and Author)
Publication:
London: printed for J. Murray, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786.
Subjects:
Medicine.
| Periodicals.
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References:
Evans 25798 | Evans 27305 | Evans 29062 | Evans 32459 | Evans 29057 | Evans 29058 | Evans 29059 | Evans 29060 | Evans 29061 | Evans 29062 | Evans 32459
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1774 (London), 1x 1776 (London), 1x 1777 (London), 1x 1778 (London), 1x 1779 (London), 1x 1780 (London), 1x 1783 (London), 1x 1784 (London), 1x 1785 (London), 1x 1786 (London), 1x 1793 (Edinburgh), 1x 1793–1797 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note:
Ten editions in London, 1774, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, as well as a series released in 1793 in Edinburgh, and another series released in 1793–1797 in Philadelphia.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.013
Medical cases, selected from the Records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh : with remarks and observations : being the substance of case-lectures, delivered during the years 1776-7, by Andrew Duncan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and one of the Physicians to the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: printed for Charles Elliot; and J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet-Street, London, [1778]
Subjects:
Clinical medicine.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1778 (Edinburgh), 1x 1781 (Edinburgh), 1x 1784 (Edinburgh), 1x 1790 (Edinburgh)
Editions Note:
Four editions, all in Edinburgh: one in 1778, one in 1781, one in 1784, and one in 1790.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.014
Observations on a proposal for establishing at Edinburgh a public dispensary for the relief of the poor, when subjected to chronical or tedious diseases. By Andrew Duncan, M.D....
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh, 1777.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1777 (Edinburgh)
Editions Note:
One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.015
Observations on the distinguishing symptoms of three different species of pulmonary consumption, the catarrhal, the apostematous, and the tuberculosis : with some remarks on the remedies and regimen best fitted for the prevention, removal, or alleviation of each species.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: Peter Hill and A. Constable & Co. ; London: Rees & Co., J. Murray, and T. Underwood, 1813.
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References:
Shaw-Shoemaker 47852
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1813 (Edinburgh), 1x 1819 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note:
Two editions: one in 1813 (Edinburgh) and one in 1819 (Philadelphia).
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.016
Observations on the operation and use of mercury in the venereal disease.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and for T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray in Fleetstreet, London, [1772]
Subjects:
Mercury -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
| Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1772 (Edinburgh)
Editions Note:
One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.017
Opinion delivered by Dr. Duncan, senior, in the College of physicians of Edinburgh : on the 13th of September 1808, upon a charge against Dr Gregory, for wilful [sic] and deliberate violation of truth.
Creator(s):
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgh: Printed by A. Neill and Co, 1808.
Subjects:
Societies, Medical
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1808 (Edinburgh)
Editions Note:
One edition.
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Member(s): Andrew Duncan
351.018
A system of the practice of medicine : from the Latin of Dr. Hoffman ... by ... William Lewis ... revised and completed by Andrew Duncan.
Creator(s):
Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1660-1742 (Author) | Lewis, William, 1708-1781 (Translator and Editor) | Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828 (Translator and Editor)
Publication:
London: J. Murray, 1783.
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APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1783 (London)
Editions Note:
One edition. This is a translation of Medicina rationalis systematica.
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