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ANDREW COMBE (1797-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW COMBE (1797-1847)  , Scottish physiologist; was born in
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Edinburgh on the 27th of
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October 1797, and was a younger
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brother of George Combe . He served an apprenticeship in a surgery, and in 1817 passed at Surgeons' Hall . He proceeded to Paris to
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complete his medical studies, and whilst there he investigated phrenology on anatomical principles . He became convinced of the truth of the new science, and, as he acquired much skill in the dissection of the brain, he subsequently gave additional
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interest to the lectures of his brother George, by his
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practical demonstrations of the convolutions . He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 with the intention of beginning practice; butbeing attacked by the first symptoms of pulmonary disease, he was obliged to seek
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health in the south of France and in Italy during the two following winters . He began to practise in 1823, and by careful adherence to the
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laws of health he was enabled to fulfil the duties of his profession for nine years . During that period he assisted in editing the Phrenological Journal and contributed a number of articles to it, defended phrenology before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, published his Observations on
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Mental Derangement (1831), and prepared the greater portion of his Principles of Physiology Applied to Health and
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Education, which was issued in 1834, and immediately obtained extensive public favour . In 1836 he was appointed physician to Leopold I., king of the Belgians, and removed to Brussels, but he speedily found the
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climate unsuitable and returned to Edinburgh, where he resumed his practice . In 1836 he published his Physiology of Digestion, and in 1838 he was appointed one of the physicians extraordinary to the queen in Scotland . Two years later he completed his Physiological and Moral Management of
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Infancy, which he believed to be his best
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work and it was his last . His latter years were mostly occupied in seeking at various health resorts some alleviation of his disease; he spent two winters in Madeira, and tried a voyage to the
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United States, but was compelled to return within a few weeks of the date of his landing at New York . He died at Gorgie, near Edinburgh, on the 9th of August 1847 .

His

biography, written by George Combe, was published in 185o .

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