Adam Neale M.D. (died 1832) was a Scottish army physician and author.

Life

He was born in Scotland and educated in Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. on 13 September 1802, his thesis being published as ''Disputatio de Acido Nitrico'', Edinburgh. He was admitted a licentiate of the

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, London, on 25 June 1806, and during the

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acted as physician to the forces, being also one of the physicians extraordinary to the

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. Neale subsequently visited Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey, where he was physician to the British embassy at

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. About 1814 Neale was in practice at

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, but moved to Cheltenham in 1820. There he provoked a controversy, and in a few months returned to Exeter. In 1824 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He went to London, and resided for some time at 58 Guilford Street,

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. Neale was a fellow of the

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. He died at

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on 22 December 1832.

Works

Neale published in 1809 ''Letters from Portugal and Spain'', an account of the operations of the armies under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, from the landing of the troops in Mondego Bay to the battle of Coruña. In 1818 he published ''Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey''. At Cheltenham he published a pamphlet in which he cast a doubt on the genuineness of the waters as served to visitors at the principal spring: ''A Letter to a Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh respecting the Nature and Properties of the Mineral Waters of Cheltenham'', London, 1820. It was answered by Dr. Thomas Jameson of Cheltenham, in ''Fact versus Assertion'', by William Henry Halpin the younger, and in ''A Letter'' by Thomas Newell. The controversy ended with the satirical ''Hints to a Physician on the opening of his Medical Career at Cheltenham'', Stroud, 1820. Neale also published: * ''The Spanish Campaign of 1808'', contributed to vol. xxvii. of ''

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'', Edinburgh, 1828, which is entitled ''Memorials of the late War'', 2 parts. * ''Researches respecting the Natural History, Chemical Analysis, and Medicinal Virtues of the Spur or Ergot of Rye when administered as a Remedy in certain States of the Uterus'', London, 1828. * ''Researches to establish the Truth of the Linnæan Doctrine of Animal Contagions'', London, 1831. Neale also translated from the French of Paolo Assalini ''Observations on … the Plague, the Dysentery, the Ophthalmy of Egypt'', London, 1804.

Family

Erskine Neale and William Johnson Neale were his sons. Neale's daughter Sydney married Samuel Rowe.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Neale, Adam Year of birth missing 1832 deaths 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish writers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh