Quesnay, Francois. Born in 1694. An eminent French physician; at the time of his death, first physician to Louis XVI. He is now remembered, however, as a writer on political economy, to which science he is said to have given its name. Although he wrote in the infancy of the science, and many of his opinions are not now maintained, his system is described by Adam Smith as being "with all its imperfections, the nearest approximation to the truth that has yet been published on the subject of political economy." Died 1774.

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