Editing Patrick Abercromby (section)

==Return to Scotland==
On his return to Scotland, Patrick Abercromby is found practising as a physician in [[Edinburgh]], where, besides his professional duties, he gave himself with characteristic zeal to the study of [[antiquities]]. He was appointed physician to James II in 1685, but the revolution deprived him of the post. Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] in the war of [[pamphlet]]s inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than [[Daniel Defoe]] in his ''Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union'' ([[Edinburgh]], 1707), and ''A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe'' (ibid.).<ref name="EB1911"/>