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See also:CURRIE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1756-1805) , Scottish physician and editor of See also:Burns, son of the See also:minister of Kirkpatrick-See also:Fleming, in See also:Dumfries-See also:shire, was See also:born there on the 31st of May 1756. Attracted by the stories of prosperity in See also:America he went in 1771 to See also:Virginia, where he spent five hard years, much of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:ill and always in unprofitable commercial business. The outbreak of See also:war between the Colonies and See also:England ended any further See also:chance of success, and sailing for See also:home in the See also:spring of 1776 after many delays he reached England a See also:year later. He then proceeded to study See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh, and after taking his degree at See also:Glasgow he settled at See also:Liverpool in 178o, where three years later he became physician to the infirmary. He died at See also:Sidmouth on the 31st of See also:August 18o5. Among other See also:pamphlets Curriewas the author of Medical Reports on the Effects of See also:Water, See also:Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fevers and Febrile Diseases (1797), which had some See also:influence in promoting the use of cold water affusion, and contains the first systematic See also:record in See also:English of clinical observations with the thermometer. But he is best known for his edition (1800), See also:long regarded as the See also:standard, of See also:Robert Burns, which he undertook in behalf of the See also:family of the poet. It contained an See also:introductory See also:criticism and an See also:essay on the See also:character and See also:condition of the Scottish peasantry.
See the Memoir by W. W. Currie, his son (1831).
End of Article: CURRIE, JAMES (1756-1805)
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