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KEILL, JAMES

Volume 12 · 114 words · 1842 Edition

an eminent physician, and brother of the preceding, was born in Scotland about the year 1673; and having travelled abroad, read lectures on 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. In 1700 he settled at Northampton, where he had considerable practice as a physician; and died there of a cancer in the mouth in 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; and, 4. Several pieces in the Philosophical Transactions.