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MACCORMAC, Henry (1800-1886)

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Born: 1800

Died: 1886

Editorial Description

phys and med author of Belfast; educated at Dublin, Paris and Edin; MD Edin 1824; became visiting phys at Belfast Lunatic Asylum, 1832, where he carried out humanitarian reforms; devoted to literature and science and to instilling notions of self-help among the working class; author of On the Best Means of Improving the Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

704.1 — 704.1 The Philosophy of Human Nature, in its Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Relations; with an attempt to demonstrate the order of Providence in the three-fold constitution of our being. London: Longman, 1837. Pp. 564. (Opposed phrenology [pp. 140, 250ff] on the grounds that it was dangerous to religion and society; reviewed PHREN J, 11 [1837/8]: 168- 74.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	704.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	221
Printed page	216
Database ID	2068

Original Transcription

704. MACCORMAC, Henry (1800-86), phys and med author of Belfast; educated at Dublin, Paris and Edin; MD Edin 1824; became visiting phys at Belfast Lunatic Asylum, 1832, where he carried out humanitarian reforms; devoted to literature and science and to instilling
notions of self-help among the working class; author of On the Best
Means of Improving the Moral and Physical Condition of the Working
Classes. (DNB)