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e H A P T E R 
B L A I R* 
Dr. Patrick Blair was a native of Scot-^ 
land, and pradifed pliyiic and furgery at 
Dundee ; where he made himfelf firjfi: known 
as an anatomift, by the diffe£lion of an ele- 
phant, which died near that place, in 1706. 
He was a Nonjuror, and fo far attached 
to the exiled family, as to have been im- 
prifoned in the rebellion in 171 5> as a 
fufpeded perfon. He afterwards removed 
to London, v/here he recommended himfelf 
to the Royal Society, by fome Difcourfes on 
the Sexes of Flowers. His ftay in London 
was not long ^ he quitted it, and fettled at 
Bofion, in Lincolnjhire ^ where, if I miftake 
not,, he praftxfed phylic during the remain- 
der of his life. I am not able to afcer- 
tain the time of his deceafe 5 but I con- 
jedture that it was foon after the publica- 
tion of the Seventh Decad of his Fharmaco^ • 
botanohgia, in 1728. 
Dr. Blair's firft publication was inti- 
tuled Mifcellaneous Obfervations in Phy- 
fic. Anatomy, Surgery, and Botanicks.'' 
8% 1718, In the botanical part of this 
workj 
