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ABERCROMBY , : DAVID
century Scottish physician who was sufficiently noteworthy a generation after the probable date of his death to have his Nova Medicinae Praxis reprinted at Paris in 1740. During his lifetime his Tula
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Haller 's Bibliotheca Medicinae Pract. (4 vols. 8vo, 1779, tom. iii. p. 629); but he claims notice rather by his remarkable controversial books in theology and philosophy than by his medical writings. Bred up at 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 common sense. It was followed by Academia Scientiarum (1687), and by A Moral. Treatise of the Power of Interest
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