Dr. Patrick Adair, Portsmouth and Chatham, Kent, England
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In reply to:
Dr. Patrick Adair, Surgeon Naval Hospital, Chatham
Shirley Walsh 1/23/08
re: "Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists ...."
pub. 1994 by Ray Desmond. p.3.
Patrick Adair (fl.1670s-1690) MD FRS 1688.
Surgeon at Naval Hospital, Chatham.
Sent British seaweeds from Gosport to S. Doody ;
Indian drugs to Sir H. Sloane and Cape plants to L. Plukenet.
Book "Medicine and the Navy, 1200-1900" by Keevil, Lloyd & Coulter. Vol. 2. pub. 1957.p.254.
"Samuel Spencer, admitted LRCP that year went to Rochester,
Patrick Adair went to Portsmouth and was later transferred to Rochester (Chatham, Kent, England).
(L.R.C.P. = Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Surgeons).Perhaps more details of Dr. Patrick Adair
at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ?
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Dr. Patrick Adair, bc.1641 botanist & Naval Surgeon,England
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