Archibald Pitcairne

Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713) was a Scottish physician and satirist, born at Edinburgh. He studied theology and law, and afterwards at Paris, medicine. He practised in Edinburgh, and became professor at Leyden. After returning, he acquired great fame in his native city. In medicine he published a treatise on Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. Being an Episcopalian and Jacobite, he wrote severe satires on all things Presbyterian, e. g. "Babel, or the Assembly, a Poem," (1692).

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