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John Millar
1733–1805
A Scottish physician who built his career in London, he wrote on major medical concerns of his day, including asthma, gout, and epidemic fever. He was also active in the Medical Society of London and in charitable medical care through the Westminster General Dispensary.
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John Millar was a Scottish medical writer, born in 1733 and educated at Edinburgh, where he took his M.D. He first practiced at Kelso before moving to London after being appointed physician to the Westminster General Dispensary in 1774.
In London, he became known both for medical practice and for writing. Reference works credit him with books and papers on subjects such as asthma, gout, and fever, showing a doctor engaged with some of the most pressing illnesses discussed in late eighteenth-century medicine.
He was also involved with the Medical Society of London, where he is remembered as an active supporter in its early years. John Millar died in 1805.