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Andrew Combe

1797–1847

Scottish physician and phrenologist. With his brother George, helped to establish the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820 and the Phrenological Journal in 1823. Published popular texts that applied physiological principles to health and illness.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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