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'''Helenus Scott''' M.D. (1760–1821) was a Scottish physician. <br />
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== Career ==<br />
He was born at [[Auchterhouse]], the son of the local minister. He attended [[High School of Dundee|Dundee Grammar School]], after which he studied science at [[Marischal College|Marischal College, Aberdeen]] from 1773 to 1777, and then studied medicine at the [[University of Edinburgh]] until 1779. He entered the medical service of the [[East India Company]], and served chiefly in the [[Bombay presidency]].<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Scott, Helenus|volume=51}}</ref><br />
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Scott became a correspondent of [[Sir Joseph Banks]] in London. At the beginning of 1790 he responded to a request from Banks on the [[cotton]] industry with an extensive report.<ref>{{cite book|author=David Mackay|title=In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science & Empire, 1780-1801|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rye3ZTPB6sIC&pg=PA163|year=1985|publisher=Victoria University Press|isbn=978-0-86473-025-1|page=163}}</ref> Later that year he sent Banks samples of [[wootz steel]].<ref>Robert Hadfield, ''A Research on Faraday's "Steel and Alloys"'', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character Vol. 230, (1932), pp. 221-292, at p. 225. Published by: The Royal Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/91231</ref> He played a part in the founding of the botanical gardens in [[Bombay]] in 1791.<ref>{{cite book|author=Zaheer Baber|title=The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9ui2HgL5AwC&pg=PA168|date=16 May 1996|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-2920-4|page=168}}</ref><br />
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Scott worked also as an agent for the local manufacture of [[gunpowder]] in Bombay, and spirits, from 1796.<ref>H. A. Young, ''The Indian Ordnance Factories and Indian Industries'', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts Vol. 72, No. 3715 (1 February 1924), pp. 175-188, at p. 180. Published by: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41356452</ref> On 24 July 1797 he was created M.D. by the [[University of Aberdeen]].<ref name="DNB"/> In 1802 he carried out the first successful [[vaccination]] in Bombay.<ref>{{cite book|author=William H. Foege|title=House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZunWRQ5_2TAC&pg=PA92|year=2011|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-26836-4|page=92}}</ref><br />
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After thirty years in India, Scott returned to England, and began practice at [[Bath, Somerset]]. On 22 December 1815 he was admitted a licentiate of the [[Royal College of Physicians]], and in 1817 began to practise as a physician in [[Russell Square]], London. He attained to considerable practice, and died on 16 November 1821.<ref name="DNB"/> He was then at sea, on {{HMS|Britomart|1820|6}}, voyaging with two of his sons to Australia.<ref name="Binney2005">{{cite book|author=Keith Robert Binney|title=Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0xYF0v8doEgC&pg=PA256|year=2005|publisher=Volcanic Productions|isbn=978-0-646-44865-7|page=256}}</ref><br />
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==Medical publications==<br />
In 1817 he contributed a paper to the ''Transactions'' of the Medico-Chirurgical Society on the use of [[nitromuriatic acid]] in medicine. Its frequent employment in the treatment of [[enteric fever]] and other maladies originated in his advocacy.<ref name="DNB"/><br />
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==Novels==<br />
Scott published a [[novel of circulation]], ''The Adventures of a Rupee'', in 1781.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Blackwell|title=The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-narratives in Eighteenth-century England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS035TUNxpwC&pg=PA117|year=2007|publisher=Bucknell University Press|isbn=978-0-8387-5666-9|page=117}}</ref> Another novel was ''Helena, or the Vicissitudes of Military Life'' (1790).<ref>{{cite book|author=Wil Verhoeven|title=Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789-1802|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQlaAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA248|date=12 November 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-04019-9|page=248}}</ref> <br />
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==Family==<br />
Scott married Augusta Maria, daughter of Colonel Charles Frederick. Their sons included Robert, Helenus, and [[Alexander Walker Scott]].<ref name="Binney2005"/> One of the stained glass windows in the [[Garrison Church (Sydney)|Garrison Church]], Sydney, was installed in memory of Helenus and Augusta.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18685280 |title=SYDNEY NEWS. |newspaper=[[The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser]] |location=NSW |date=28 November 1861 |accessdate=11 August 2014 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><br />
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