2. Memoir of the Life and Writings of Robert Whytt, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, from 1747 to 1766

Extract

Biography, the author said, had never done sufficient justice to Robert Whytt, while it began already to omit his name. Whytt had commonly been represented as a follower of Stahl; and this idea, which was without foundation, had probably been a principal cause why his merits had not always been duly recognised.

It was mentioned in the Memoir, that Whytt was born at Edinburgh, September 6, 1714; he was the son of Robert Whytt of Bennochy, a member of the Scottish bar; he was a posthumous child, born six months after his father's death; he was not yet seven years old when he lost his mother; her name was Murray; she was the daughter of Antony Murray of Woodend, in Perthshire.