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tafte for botany and phyiic during his re- 
fidence at Glajgow ; and continued to make 
a coniiderable progrefs in thefe ftudies, in- 
fomuch, that, in 171 2, he took a dodor's 
degree in phyiic at Edinburgh ^ and the 
next fpring, having a ftraight income, and 
a large family, he removed to Dublin^ and 
fettled there in the united charafter of the 
divine, and phyfician. Finding himfelf like- 
ly to fucceed, in little more than a year, he 
fent for his family, confifting of a v^ife, 
three fons, and three daughters. His prac- 
tice as a phyfician, foon increafed, fo far as 
to enable him to drop his other charafter 
entirely, and devote himfelf v^holly to phy- 
lie. In 1727, he publifhed his Synopsis 
Stirpium HiBERNiCARUM and died, 
after a fhort ficknefs, of a violent fever, at 
his houfe in Mark's Alley ^ Frances Street y 
April 28, 1728 ^ and was buried in the new 
burial ground belonging to St. Patrick's, 
near Cavan Street ; to which place his ob- 
fequies were attended by a fet of children, 
educated by a fociety of gentlemen, to which 
inilitution he had aded as phyfician. And 
my memorialift adds, that he was much re- 
O 3 gretted 
