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Francis Home FRSE FRCPE (17 November 1719 in Eccles, Berwickshire – 15 February 1813) was a Scottish physician, and the first Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh,〔Home, W. E. "Francis Home (1719-1813), First Professor of Materia Medica in Edinburgh." ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine'' 21.6 (1928): 1013.〕 known to make the first attempt to vaccinate against measles, in 1758.
== Biography == Francis Home was the third son of an advocate residing at Eccles, Berwickshire, and received his education at Duns Grammar School. From 1742 to 1748 he served as surgeon of dragoons in Flanders in the seven years' war,〔 studying at Leyden University during the intervals of the campaigns. Leaving the army, he graduated M.D. at University of Edinburgh in 1750, with a treatise on intermittent fever, and became a fellow of the Edinburgh College of Physicians. After graduation, Home worked as a physician in Edinburgh, from 1749. After practising medicine for some years at Edinburgh, and obtaining in 1757 a gold medal for an essay on the principles of agriculture, given by the Edinburgh Society for the Improvement of Arts and Manufactures. He was appointed in 1768 the first professor of materia medica in the university, the subject being then dissociated from botany. He held this post till 1798,〔 and as one of the clinical professors of medicine at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary experimented on the actions of several novel drugs, which he introduced into practice. Home served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1775-7) and as president of the Physical section of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1789–96). He was a founding member of both the Royal Medical Society and of the Select Society.〔
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