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His medical reputation was based on his ''Tuta ac efficax luis venereae saepe absque mercurio ac semper absque salivatione mercuriali curando methodus'' ( 1684 ) which was translated into French , Dutch and German . Two other works by him were ''De Pulsus Variatione'' ( 1685 ), and ''Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore'' ( 1688 ); His ''Opuscula'' were collected in 1687 . These professional writings gave him a place and memorial in A. von Haller's ''Bibliotheca Medicinae Pract.'' ( 1779 ). He also wrote some books in Theology and Philosophy , controversial in their time but little remembered today. Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit priests, he was converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure Popery , and published ''Protestancy proved Safer than Popery'' ( 1686 ). But the most noticeable of his productions is ''A Discourse of Wit'' ( 1685 ), which contains some of the most characteristic metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of common sense. It was followed by ''Academia Scientiarum'' ( 1687 ), and by ''A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest'' ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle , Abercromby's patron in the 1680s. He later wrote ''Reasons Why A Protestant Should not Turn Papist'' ( 1687 ), which has often wrongly been attributed to Boyle. ''A Short Account of Scots Divines'', by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833 , edited by James Maidment. The exact date of his death is unknown, but according to Haller he was alive early in the 18th Century , possibly dying in 1702. FURTHER READING
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