William Cockburn was a physician who wrote works on the diseases of seamen and published in the Philosophical Transactions. He had a large medical practice and claimed to have a secret remedy for dysentery.
Reference:
Charles Creighton, ‘Cockburn, William (1669-1739)’, rev. Anita Guerrini, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5777 [accessed 5 July 2013]).
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