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DAVID, a 17th-See also:century Scottish physician who was sufficiently noteworthy a See also:generation after the probable date of his See also:death to have his Nova Medicinae Praxis reprinted at See also:Paris in 1740. During his lifetime his See also:Tula ac efficax luis venereae saepe absque mercurio -ac See also:semper absque salivatione mercuriali curando methodus (1684) was translated into See also:French, Dutch and See also:German. Two other See also:works by him were De Pulsus Variatione (See also:London, 1685), and Ars explorandi medicos facilitates plantarum ex See also:solo sapore (London, 1685–1688). His Opuscula were collected in 1687. These professional writings gave him a See also:place and memorial in A. von See also:Haller's Bibliotheca Medicinae Pract. (4 vols. 8vo, 1779, tom. iii. p. 629); but he claims See also:notice rather by his remarkable controversial books in See also:theology and See also:philosophy than by his medical writings. Bred up at See also:Douai as a Jesuit, he abjured popery, and published Protestancy proved Safer, than Popery (London, 1686). But the most noticeable of his productions is A Discourse of Wit (London, 1.685), which contains some of the most characteristic and most definitely-put metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of See also:common sense. It was followed by Academia Scientiarum (1687), and by A Moral. See also:Treatise of the See also:Power of See also:Interest (169o), dedicated to See also:Robert See also:Boyle.

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Short See also:Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at See also:Edinburgh in 1833, edited by See also:James Maidment. The exact date of his death is unknown, but ac-cording to Haller he was alive See also:early in the 18th century.

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