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Joseph Nicoll Scott, M.D. — A doctor of medicine of Edinburgh of 1744 (D.M.I. de quibusdam Capitis Nervorumque Affectionibus); was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 17th October, 1757. He was originally a dissenting minister. He seems to have practised physic at Ipswich, and he died about 1773. He was the editor of Bailey's English Dictionary, and the author of two volumes of sermons, and of an essay towards a translation of Homer’s works into blank verse.
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