Malcolm Flemyng (Q387479)

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* 1700, + 1764, physiologist, writer, teacher
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Malcolm Flemyng
* 1700, + 1764, physiologist, writer, teacher

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    7 March 1764Gregorian
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    Education: pupil of Alexander Monro primus, the first professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh; heard lectures given by Hermann Boerhaave of the University of Leiden 1723-4
    Overall: Flemyng was a physiologist who lectured and wrote on the topic. The DNB characterizes Flemyng as "typical of the new breed of Enlightened medical practitioners." He wrote one poem in Latin, Neuropathia, a treatise on hysteria.