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 * Article title: Adams, Francis
 * Author: Payne, Joseph Frank
 * LEAD: ADAMS, FRANCIS (1796–1861), physician and classical scholar, was born 13 March 1796 at Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, the son of James Adams, a small farmer, was educated at a parish school, and afterwards at the grammar school, Aberdeen.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, FRANCIS (1796–1861), physician and classical scholar, was born 13 March 1796 at Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, the son of James Adams, a small farmer, was educated at a parish school, and afterwards at the grammar school, Aberdeen.
 * LEAD: ADAMS, FRANCIS (1796–1861), physician and classical scholar, was born 13 March 1796 at Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, the son of James Adams, a small farmer, was educated at a parish school, and afterwards at the grammar school, Aberdeen.

Works

 * ‘Hermes Philologus’ (8vo, London, 1826)
 * papers on Greek prosody, &c. in the ‘Classical Journal,’ and an appendix to Dunbar's ‘Greek Lexicon,’ containing valuable explanations of the Greek names of animals, plants, &c.
 * ‘Arundines Devæ,’ or poetical translations on a new principle, by a Scotch physician, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1853
 * ‘Hero and Leander’ from the Greek of Musæus, with other poems (Aberdeen, 1820)
 * ‘The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta, translated from the Greek, with a Commentary,’ Lond. 1844–7, 8vo)
 * ‘The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, translated from the Greek,’ London, 1849, 2 vols. 8vo
 * ‘The Extant Works of Aretæus the Cappadocian, edited and translated by F. Adams,’ London, 1856, 8vo
 * ‘On the Human Placenta’ (‘London Med. Gazette,’ 1848, &c.; reprinted Aberdeen 1858)
 * ‘On Uterine Hæmorrhage’
 * ‘On a Case of Dislocation of the Knee-joint,’ &c.
 * numerous papers and reviews in medical journals