Andrew Plummer

{{Short description|Scottish chemist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{Infobox scientist

| birth_date = {{birth year|1697}}

| death_date = {{death year and age|1756|1697}}

| nationality = Scottish

| fields = Chemistry

| workplaces = University of Edinburgh

}}

Andrew Plummer FRCP (1697–1756) was a Scottish physician and chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1726 to 1755. He developed ideas on the attractive and repulsive forces involved in chemical affinity, which later had influence on his successors William Cullen and Joseph Black.[http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/about/professors/plummer.html Andrew Plummer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718152632/http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/about/professors/plummer.html |date=18 July 2011 }} – Biography, University of Edinburgh. He compounded "Plummer's pills", a mixture of calomel and antimony sulfide with guaiacum; the pills were originally compounded to treat psoriasis but were used for more than a century as an antisyphilitic.Richard M. Swiderski, Calomel in America: Mercurial Panacea, War, Song and Ghosts (Universal Publishers, 2008; {{ISBN|1-59942-467-3}}), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ0UpvVbGOYC&pg=PA117 115-118]