Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.

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[1800]
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Credit: Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘jsP> Account of the Reparation of Dr Pitcairne’s Monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a Lift of Medical Practi¬ tioners rejiding in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal fiare of the expence of that Reparation. December 25. 1800. THE elegant Account of the Life and Wri¬ tings of Dr Archibald Pitcairne, pu- blifhed by the late Dr Charles Webber, is concluded with the following fentence : Without being a bigot to the complexion of the times, Dr Pitcairne died a worthy and religious man, leaving an example to the world of indefatigable induftry, united with tranfcendent abilities, and of both fo employ¬ ed, as to merit the grateful veneration of po~ fterity.” As a teftimony of that veneration, almoil all the medical praclitioners at prefent redding in Edinburgh, have lately agreed to repair the monument, which, foon after his death, was ere&ed to his memory in the Gray¬ friars Churchyard. It happened to be accidentally mentioned at the iEfculapian Club, that from the height of Vl