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James Currie (31 May 1756 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland – 31 August 1805 in Sidmouth) was a Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever. A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756–1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland.〔Watercolour by Horace Hone (James Currie, 1756 – 1805. Physician and man of letters )〕 His early attempt to set up a merchanting business in Virginia was a failure and he returned to Scotland. After qualifying as a medical doctor he established a successful practice in Liverpool, England and after a few years was able to purchase a small estate in Dumfriesshire.〔 He became a Fellow of the London Medical Society and was a founder member of the Liverpool Literary Society.〔 He was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery〔''Dr James Currie (1756–1805): Liverpool physician, campaigner, hydrotherapist and man of letters'' by S Halliday, published by U.S.National Library of Medicine〕 and wrote several political letters and pamphlets, including one to William Pitt, which made him a number of enemies. Throughout his life he was dogged by illness and in 1804 he became seriously unwell. In an effort to find a cure, he relinquished his Liverpool practice and went to Bath, Clifton and finally Sidmouth, where he died on 31 August 1805 at age 49. ==Family and education== He was born in Kirkpatrick-Fleming, in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, a son of the minister, the Reverend James Currie, and Jane, the only daughter of Robert Boyd, of Dumfries. The Curries were an old Scottish family, descended from the Curries of Dunse, Berwickshire,〔''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, section Currie''〕 and originally from the Corrie family of Annandale.〔This branch made the transition from Corrie to Currie around the thirteenth century. Sir Walter de Corrie, governor of Wigtown castle in 1291, is shown in some records as Corrie and as Currie in others. His son Walter is in most records shown with the surname Currie.〕 James's first school was in the nearby parish of Middlebie, in Annandale, where his father had become Minister, and from age 13 he attended the grammar school in Dumfries, run by Dr George Chapman.〔 After a period in America, described below, he returned in 1776 to Scotland to study medicine at Edinburgh. During his first year at university he contracted rheumatic fever, a disease which recurred periodically throughout his life. He obtained his degree of M.D. in Glasgow and in 1780 settled in Liverpool, where he was appointed as one of the physicians at the infirmary.〔''The Burns Encyclopedia'' (Dr James Currie )〕 He married Lucy Wallace in 1783, with whom he had five children. Her father was a prosperous merchant, a descendant of William Wallace, nicknamed ''The Hero of Scotland'' by Sir Walter Scott.〔electricscotland (Currie )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Currie (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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