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Andrew Duncan, the younger

1773–1832

Physician and expert in forensic science. Son of Andrew Duncan (1744–1828) and his wife, Mary Knox. MD, Edinburgh, 1794. Studied in London and Europe. Published the Edinburgh new dispensatory (1803); it went through many editions. Chief editor of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. Professor of materia medica, Edinburgh University, 1821–32.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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