Francis Adams (translator)
{{Short description|Scottish medical doctor and translator (1796–1861)}}
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|birth_place=Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire
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|death_place=Banchory, Aberdeenshire
|alma_mater=King's College, Aberdeen
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Francis Adams (13 March 1796 – 26 February 1861) was a Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works.
He was born in Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire. Adams had a practice in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, from 1819 to 1861. Because there were no English translations of the medical tracts of the Greek, Roman, and Arabian doctors, Adams undertook many translations himself, which were widely published.
Works
- {{lang|la|Doctissimus medicorum Britannorum}}
References
- {{Nuttall|title=Adams, Dr. F.}}
- {{DNB |wstitle=Adams, Francis|author-first=Joseph Frank |author-last=Payne}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Adam |first=A. |year=1997 |title=Dr Francis Adams of Banchory (1796–1861). "Doctissimus medicorum Britannorum" |journal=Scottish Medical Journal |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=53–4 |doi=10.1177/003693309704200209 |pmid=9507583 |s2cid=1760224}}
External links
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- [http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Hippocrates.html Works by Hippocrates] – written in 400 BC, by Hippocrates, translated by Francis Adams
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Category:19th-century Scottish medical doctors
Category:Greek–English translators
Category:19th-century Scottish translators
Category:Translators of Ancient Greek texts
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