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James Keith, second son of William Keith of Corstorphine Hill, 
accountant in Edinburgh, was born 29th November 1783, and was 
educated at the High School and University of Edinburgh. He 
was apprentice to Messrs Hell, Ward rope, and Kussell; went to 
London in 1804, and attended the London Hospital and Guy’s. 
Was surgeon of the Berwickshire Militia for two or three years, 
which he resigned on entering into partnership with Dr Andrew 
Wardrope, which connection terminated by Dr Wardrope’s death 
in 1822. 
Mr Keith took the degree of M.D. in the University of Edin- 
burgh in 1804, and he became a Fellow of the College of Surgeons 
in 1810. He was physician to the Deaf and Dumb Institution for 
many years. From the extreme shyness of his disposition, his 
worth and ability were known only to a limited circle of intimate 
friends. He died 12th May 18G3. His widow and two sons sur- 
vive — William Alexander, M.A. Oxon., and Charles Maitland. 
David Boswell Eeid was the second son of Dr Peter Keid, phy- 
sician in Edinburgh. His mother, Christian Arnot, was the eldest 
daughter of Hugo Arnot of Balcormo, advocate and antiquary, 
well known to the last generation by his book on the history of 
Edinburgh and his collection of Scotch criminal trials — and per- 
haps still better by the extraordinary attenuated, almost skeleton, 
figure of the old gentleman preserved to us in Kay’s Portraits. 
Dr Peter Keid (whose mother was a Boswell of the Balmuto family) 
was the editor of Dr Cullen’s “ First Lines of the Practice of 
Physic,” 1802. A new edition was published, with supplemen- 
tary notes, in 1810. He was also the author of a little duodecimo 
volume, entitled “Letters on the Study of Medicine and on the Medi- 
cal Character, addressed to a Student,” Edin., 1809. Besides the 
subject of my present notice. Dr Peter Eeid had two sons, — Dr 
William, a lecturer in Edinburgh on the practice of Medicine, and 
Dr Hugo, well known as the author of several popular works, the 
last of which is a modest and temperate memoir of his distin- 
guished brother, to which I beg to acknowledge my obligation. 
David Boswell Eeid was educated at the High School and Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh. At the former, Mr Pillans, the rector, has 
mentioned him as “ among the head boys of the Eector’s class.” 
