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See also:COMBE, See also:ANDREW (1797-1847) , Scottish physiologist; was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 27th of See also:October 1797, and was a younger See also:brother of See also:George Combe. He served an See also:apprenticeship in a See also:surgery, and in 1817 passed at Surgeons' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall. He proceeded to See also:Paris to See also:complete his medical studies, and whilst there he investigated See also:phrenology on anatomical principles. He became convinced of the truth of the new See also:science, and, as he acquired much skill in the See also:dissection of the See also:brain, he subsequently gave additional See also:interest to the lectures of his brother George, by his See also: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 See also:health in the See also:south of See also:France and in See also:Italy during the two following winters. He began to practise in 1823, and by careful adherence to the See also:laws of health he was enabled to fulfil the duties of his profession for nine years. During that See also:period he assisted in editing the Phrenological See also:Journal and contributed a number of articles to it, defended phrenology before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, published his Observations on See also:Mental Derangement (1831), and prepared the greater portion of his Principles of See also:Physiology Applied to Health and See also:Education, which was issued in 1834, and immediately obtained extensive public favour. In 1836 he was appointed physician to See also:Leopold I., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Belgians, and removed to See also:Brussels, but he speedily found the See also: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 See also:queen in See also:Scotland. Two years later he completed his Physiological and Moral Management of See also:Infancy, which he believed to be his best See also: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 See also:Madeira, and tried a voyage to the See also:United States, but was compelled to return within a few See also:weeks of the date of his landing at New See also:York. He died at Gorgie, near Edinburgh, on the 9th of See also:August 1847.
His See also:biography, written by George Combe, was published in 185o.
End of Article: COMBE, ANDREW (1797-1847)
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