Medical Career
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and moved to India in 1797. There, he was commissioned as a surgeon to an Army regiment, and was able to take up work as interpreter and commissary-general due to his knowledge of Indian languages.
His knowledge of chemistry helped him provide the administration to recover damp gunpowder in 1802, on the eve of Lord Lake's Maratha war. In 1808, he resigned and returned home with a fortune of about £40,000.
Between 1808 and 1811, he travelled around England and Europe and, in 1812, published a blank verse translation of The Inferno.
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