KEILL (James), M. D. an eminent physician, and
brother of the former, was born in Scotland about
the year 1673; and having travelled abroad, read lec-
tures of anatomy with great applause in the universities
of Oxford and Cambridge, by the latter of which he
had the degree of doctor of physic conferred upon him.
Keisersberg. In 1700 he settled at Northampton, where he had considerable practice as a physician; and died there of a cancer in the month of 1719. He published, 1. An English translation of Lemery's chemistry. 2. An account of animal secretion, the quantity of blood in the human body, and muscular motion. 3. A treatise on anatomy. 4. Several pieces in the Philosophical Transactions.