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MACKENZIE, William (1791-1868)

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Born: 1791

Died: 1868

Editorial Description

surgeon of Glasgow; born in Glasgow, the son of a muslin manufacturer; studied in London and Vienna, returned to Glasgow, 1819; abandoned divinity in 1810 for med; surgeon-oculist for the queen in Scotland from 1838; ed Phrenology in the British Isles. GLASGOW MED J (1829-9); prof of anatomy at Andersonian Univ; an early advocate of phrenology, on which he lectured in Glasgow 1822-5 and included among the topics in his anatomy course. (J. Marshall, Glas Med J, 35 [1954]: 258-70.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	717.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	224
Printed page	219
Database ID	2103

Original Transcription

717. MACKENZIE, William (1791-1868), surgeon of Glasgow; born in
Glasgow, the son of a muslin manufacturer; studied in London and
Vienna, returned to Glasgow, 1819; abandoned divinity in 1810 for
med; surgeon-oculist for the queen in Scotland from 1838; ed


Phrenology in the British Isles.
GLASGOW MED J (1829-9); prof of anatomy at Andersonian Univ;
an early advocate of phrenology, on which he lectured in Glasgow
1822-5 and included among the topics in his anatomy course. (J.
Marshall, Glas Med J, 35 [1954]: 258-70.)