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MOIR, DAVID MACBETH (1798—1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOIR, See also:DAVID See also:MACBETH (1798—1851) , Scottish physician and writer, was See also:born at See also:Musselburgh on the 5th of See also:January 1798. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh University, taking his degree in 1816. Entering into See also:partnership with a Musselburgh See also:doctor he practised there until his See also:death on the 6th of See also:July 1851. He was a contributor of both See also:prose and See also:verse to the magazines, and particularly, with the See also:signature of " See also:Delta," to See also:Blackwood's. A collection of his See also:poetry was edited in 1852 by See also:Thomas See also:Aird. Among his publications were the famous See also:Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor (1828), which shows his gifts as a humorist, Outlines of the See also:Ancient See also:History of Medicine (1831), and See also:Sketch of the Poetical Literature of the Past See also:Half See also:Century (1851).

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