# Andrew Plummer

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{{Short description|Scottish chemist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| birth_date  = {{birth date text|1697}}
| death_date  = {{death year and age|1756|1697}}
| fields      = [Chemistry](/source/Chemistry)
| workplaces  = [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh)
}}

'''Andrew Plummer''' [FRCP](/source/Royal_College_of_Physicians_of_Edinburgh) (1697–1756) was a Scottish physician and chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) from 1726 to 1755. He developed ideas on the attractive and repulsive forces involved in [chemical affinity](/source/chemical_affinity), which later had influence on his successors [William Cullen](/source/William_Cullen) and [Joseph Black](/source/Joseph_Black).<ref>[http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/about/professors/plummer.html Andrew Plummer] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718152632/http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/about/professors/plummer.html |date=18 July 2011 }} – Biography, University of Edinburgh.</ref> He compounded "Plummer's pills", a mixture of [calomel](/source/calomel) and [antimony sulfide](/source/antimony_sulfide) with [guaiacum](/source/guaiacum); the pills were originally compounded to treat [psoriasis](/source/psoriasis) but were used for more than a century as an [antisyphilitic](/source/syphilis).<ref>Richard M. Swiderski, ''Calomel in America: Mercurial Panacea, War, Song and Ghosts'' (Universal Publishers, 2008; {{ISBN|1-59942-467-3}}), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lZ0UpvVbGOYC&pg=PA117 115-118]</ref>

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