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In his later years, Duncan was actively occupied in promoting the establishment of a public experimental garden, the scheme for which was actively progressing at his death. In 1819, his son became joint professor with him, and in 1821, Dr. W. P. Alison succeeded to that post, but Duncan continued to
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He bequeathed to the Royal
College of Physicians of Edinburgh seventy volumes of manuscript notes from the lectures of the founders of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, and a hundred volumes of practical observations on medicine in his own handwriting. A portrait of him by
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in 1764, and five times afterwards. His attachment to the society continued through life: he was its treasurer for many years; and in 1786 he was awarded a gold medal for his services. On the completion of his course of studies in 1768, he traveled to
370:. Although in his later years, he failed to keep up with the progress of physiology, his zeal was unabated. He used to say that the business of no institution should be hindered by his absence, whether it was forwarded by his presence or not.
225:, a quarterly journal of medicine, at first issued in the name of "a society in Edinburgh", Duncan being named as secretary. It was the first medical review journal published regularly in Great Britain. The seventh volume was entitled
282:. On William Cullen's resignation in that year he was succeeded in the professorship of medicine by James Gregory, and Duncan followed the latter in the chair of the theory or institutes of medicine (physiology).
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He is buried together with many of his family in a mausoleum in
Buccleuch Churchyard. As a favour, one of his prodigy students is buried in the tomb, having died during his studies:
297:. It was not until many difficulties had been surmounted that the project was at last accomplished, and a royal charter was granted in 1807 under which a lunatic asylum was built in
144:, where he obtained the M.A. degree in 1762. As a youth he was known as "the smiling boy", and his character for good nature was retained through life. Lord Erskine and his brother
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and served as
Honorary Secretary until 1827. This Club, which still meets today, was aimed at stimulating intellectual discussion and convivial relations between Fellows of the
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192:. Refusing an offer of five hundred guineas to undertake a second voyage, Duncan graduated M.D. at St Andrews in October 1769, and in May 1770 became a licentiate of the
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Edinburgh's first Public Dispensary at West Richmond Street. Later called the Royal Dispensary it stood until at least 1900. Duncan's portrait by
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was elected professor, and Duncan started an extra-academical course, as well as a public dispensary (the first free hospital in
Scotland), which afterwards became the
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Scottish Freemason. He was initiated in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No.2, on 27 December 1774. The Lodge records state that he was the 'founder of the
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During the absence of Dr. Drummond, professor-elect of medicine at
Edinburgh, Duncan was appointed to lecture in 1774–6. When Drummond failed to return,
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In 1821, Duncan was elected president of the
Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society at its foundation. In 1824, he was again elected president of the
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on May-day morning, accomplishing this for the last time on 1 May 1827. He died at his home, Adam Square in
Edinburgh on 5 July 1828, at age 84.
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Duncan's extra-academical lectures were continued with considerable success till 1790, when he became the president of the
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was conferred upon Duncan for his services in the foundation of the dispensary and the asylum. In 1809, he founded the
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do much of the duty to the last. In 1821, on the death of James Gregory, Duncan became first
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were among his school fellows and fast friends through life. In 1762, he entered the
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Miscellaneous Poems, extracted from the Records of the Circulation Club, Edinburgh
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Medical Commentaries for the year 1780, collected and published by Andrew Duncan
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Monumental Inscriptions selected from Burial Grounds at Edinburgh
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An edition of Hoffmann's 'Practice of Medicine,’ 2 vols. 1783.
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Duncan's larger works, besides those already mentioned, are:
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In 1773 he lived on Bristo Street in the south of Edinburgh.
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Fragment of Life of the Scriba Prætorius in Misc. Poems of
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Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878
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British physician and founder of Royal Edinburgh Hospital
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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
405:'Elements of Therapeutics,’ 1770, second edition 1773.
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For more than half a century he walked to the top of
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1115:Members of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
1110:Founder fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
260:- celebrates the work of physician and anatomist
109:which forms part of the Edinburgh City Hospital.
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359:in Scotland, having held the same office to the
256:, which also still meets today and - like other
137:, and afterwards by Richard Dick of St Andrews.
1012:Grant's Story of Edinburgh University ii. 406–7
902:. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 7.
320:. The chair was eventually filled by his son,
285:In 1792, he proposed the erection of a public
1160:Members of the American Philosophical Society
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783:. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006.
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530:the naturalist, but dying before his birth.
87:, the elder (17 October 1744 – 5 July 1828)
439:, Duncan published an oration in praise of
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722:Grant's old and New Edinburgh vol.2 p.384
312:, and campaigned to establish a chair of
221:In 1773, he commenced the publication of
152:as a medical student, being the pupil of
1060:Academics of the University of Edinburgh
548:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
476:Carminum Rariorum Macaronicorum Delectus
368:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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246:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
194:Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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275:hung in the building's entrance hall.
250:Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
235:Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
223:Medical and Philosophical Commentaries
1105:19th-century Scottish medical doctors
1100:18th-century Scottish medical doctors
1055:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
670:"The Harveian Tradition in Scotland"
654:Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club
630:Edinburgh Post Office directory 1773
526:by blood the uncle of his namesake
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988:Dictionary of National Biography
977:Bettany, George Thomas (1888). "
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333:Caledonian Horticultural Society
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254:Harveian Society of Edinburgh
891:UK public library membership
447:, 1780; John Parsens, 1786;
363:for more than thirty years.
350:Duncan's gravestone (centre)
264:, especially concerning the
240:In 1773, Duncan founded the
175:Duncan was president of the
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1090:British forensic scientists
878:. Oxford University Press.
472:Letter to Dr. James Gregory
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524:Charles Darwin (1758–1778)
453:Alexander Monro (secundus)
322:Andrew Duncan, the younger
103:Royal Society of Edinburgh
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668:GUTHRIE, DOUGLAS (1957).
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318:University of Edinburgh
209:Royal Public Dispensary
150:University of Edinburgh
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78:Physician and professor
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419:Pulmonary consumption
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357:Physician to the King
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70:5 July 1828 (aged 83)
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599:search.amphilsoc.org
595:"APS Member History"
512:Edinburgh dispensary
329:freedom of Edinburgh
107:Andrew Duncan Clinic
1065:Scottish Freemasons
998:Miscellaneous Poems
248:and Fellows of the
1085:Scottish activists
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800:on 24 January 2013
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391:John Watson Gordon
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186:East India Company
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306:forensic medicine
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