Education
University of Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh.
Doctor of Medicine Edinburgh, 1781. His essay on Massinger reprinted in Gifford"s edition (1805). Physician of the Manchester Infirmary, 1789–1815.
Introduced many sanitary reforms when on the Manchester board of health.
Published works including Medical Histories and Reflections 1792-1795-8, and Illustrations of Sterne 1798. His obituary, published in 1815, read:
He also published An essay towards a theory of apparitions in 1813 in which he argued that apparitions could be explained by optical illusions.