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(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 56.) By Laurence B. McCullough. 347 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1998. $140. ISBN 0-7923-4917-2.
(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 57.) Edited by Laurence B. McCullough. 254 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1998. $105. ISBN 0-7923-5000-6.

John Gregory was a Scottish physician who taught at the famed medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the latter half of the 18th century. Scion of a family of renowned mathematicians, he moved in the company of brilliant minds, such as David Hume and his own cousin, Thomas Reid, who lit the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment. Although overshadowed as a professor of medicine by the great William Cullen, Gregory attained respect for his learning, his clinical skill, his kindness, and particularly for his Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician (London, 1772). These . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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