Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Robert Sibbald was a Scottish physician and antiquary. Life He was born in Edinburgh, the son of David Sibbald and Margaret Boyd . Educated at the Royal High School and the Universities of Edinburgh, Leiden, and Paris, he took his doctor's degree at the University of Angers in 1662, and soon afterwards settled as a physician working in Edinburgh. He resided at "Kipps Castle" near Linlithgow. In 1667 with Sir Andrew Balfour he started the botanical garden in Edinburgh, and he took a leading part in establishing the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, of which he was elected president in 1684. Both Sibbald and Balfour were proponents of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia.
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