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Buchan , William , 1729-1805 , physician and author
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Born, 1729; educated at Jedburgh grammar school and University of Edinburgh, intending to enter the ministry; left Edinburgh University, [1758]; practised medicine in rural Yorkshire; medical officer to a branch of the Foundling Hospital at Ackworth, Yorkshire, 1759; practised in Sheffield, 1762; returned to Edinburgh about 1766; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1772; practised in London, 1778.
Publications: Domestic Medicine (1769)
On the Offices and Duties of a Mother (1800)
Advice to mothers on the subject of their own health, and on the means of promoting the health, strength and beauty of their offspring (1803)