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GREGORY, William (1803-1858)

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Born: 1803

Died: 1858

Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Edin 1828, FRCP Edin, FRS Edin 1832; fourth son of James Gregory, prof of med in Edin; studied chemistry under Liebig in Giessen, 1835; accepted a lectureship at the Andersonian Univ, 1837, at Dublin Univ, 1838, King's Coll, Aberdeen, 1839, before becoming prof of chemistry at Edin, 1844 (his competitor, Lyon Playfair, being his successor in 1858); author of various works on chemistry and on mesmerism, and translator of Baron von Reichenbach's Researches on Magnetism, 1846; pres Scottish Curative Mesmeric Assn, 1856; M Br Assn; active in EDIN PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN from Sept 1840; delivered a popular course of lectures on phrenology at the Andersonian Univ, 1839; pres Edin Roy Med Soc in 1836 when he supplied G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE with testimonials on phrenology. (DNB; DSB; MEB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

• 481.1 — 481.1 "On a Singular Affection of the Organ of Language, Produced by the Action of Morphin [sic]," PHREN J, 8 (1832/4): 161-4.
• 481.2 — 481.2 "Phreno-Mesmeric Cases; with Remarks on the Theory which ascribes the Phenomena to Sympathy," PHREN J, 17 (1844): 379-85.
• 481.3 — 481.3 "Case of Vision-seeing," PHREN J, 18 (1845): 38-41.
• 481.4 — 481.4 "The Cerebral Development of Dr. Justus Leibig; with Remarks," PHREN J, 18 (1845): 54-60.
• 481.5 — 481.5 "On the True Scientific Spirit in Which the Claims of Phrenology and Mesmerism ought to be examined," PHREN J, 20 (1847): 97-122. (Reprinted in G. COMBE, R. COX, et al, Moral and Intellectual Science Applied to the Elevation of Society, New York: Fowler & Wells, 1848: 80-108.)

Editorial Information

481. GREGORY, William (1803-58), MD Edin 1828, FRCP Edin, FRS
Edin 1832; fourth son of James Gregory, prof of med in Edin; studied
chemistry under Liebig in Giessen, 1835; accepted a lectureship at
the Andersonian Univ, 1837, at Dublin Univ, 1838, King's Coll,
Aberdeen, 1839, before becoming prof of chemistry at Edin, 1844
(his competitor, Lyon Playfair, being his successor in 1858); author
of various works on chemistry and on mesmerism, and translator of
Baron von Reichenbach's Researches on Magnetism, 1846; pres Scottish Curative Mesmeric Assn, 1856; M Br Assn; active in EDIN PHREN
SOC; M PHREN ASSN from Sept 1840; delivered a popular course of
lectures on phrenology at the Andersonian Univ, 1839; pres Edin Roy
Med Soc in 1836 when he supplied G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE
with testimonials on phrenology. (DNB; DSB; MEB)