CURRIE, JAMES (1756-1805), Scottish physician and editor of Burns, son of the minister of Kirkpatrick-Fleming, in Dumfriesshire, was born there on May 31, 1756, and died at Sid mouth on Aug. 31, 1805. He spent some years in America before he studied medicine and became physician (1783) of Liverpool infirmary. Among other pamphlets Currie wrote Medical Reports on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fevers and Febrile Diseases 0797), which had some influence in promot ing the use of cold water allusion, and contains the first systematic record in English of clinical observations with the thermometer.
But he is best known for his edition (i800), long regarded as the standard, of Robert Burns.