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​CRAWFORD, ADAIR (1748–1795), physician and chemist, born in 1748, was a pupil at St.

George's Hospital. After he had ​obtained his M.D. degree he is said to have practised with great success in London, and for so young a man was surrounded by a large circle of attached friends. Through their influence he was eventually appointed one of the physicians to St.

Thomas's Hospital, and elected as professor of chemistry to the Military Academy at Woolwich.

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At the age of twenty-eight Crawford visited Scotland. The experiments which he made on heat imply that he was for some time in Glasgow and in Edinburgh. Crawford informs us that he began his experiments in Glasgow on animal heat and combustion in the summer of 1777.

They were communicated in the autumn of that year to Drs. Irvine and Reid and to Mr. Wilson. In the beginning of the ensuing session they were made known to the professors and students of the