# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-buchan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:30.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-buchan"
name: "William Buchan"
slug: "william-buchan"
description: "William Buchan was a Scottish physician and writer. He is best known for his work Domestic Medicine: or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines, which provided laypeople with detailed descriptions of the causes and prevention of diseases. Buchan's goal was one of \"laying medicine more open to mankind.\" With over 80,000 copies and 19 editions sold in Buchan's lifetime, it was one of the most popular medical texts in Europe and even in the European colonies in the Americas, and was translated into almost every major European language."
tagline: "Scottish physician (1729-1805)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Buchan_b1729.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1729"
deathDate: "1805-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.006804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8)"
    title: "ويليام بوشان (طبيب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buchan_(physician)"
    title: "William Buchan (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buchan"
    title: "William Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buchan"
    title: "William Buchan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Бухан, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568460"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump