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COLQUHOUN, John Campbell younger son of the second baronet of Luss; educated at Gottingen; advocate at Scottish bar and sheriff-deputy of Dumbartonshire (1785-1854)

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Born: 1785

Died: 1854

Editorial Description

1815-54; translated parts of Kant; M Glasgow Protestant Assn; author of Iris Rebelata, an inquiry into the progress of animal magnetism (1836) and similar works on mesmerism; gave four lectures on animal magnetism to the EDIN PHIL ASSN during the time when G. COMBE was teaching moral philosophy there; spoke contemptuously of the philosophical materialists in Edin. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

236.1 — 236.1 The Fallacy of Phreno-Magnetism Detected and Exposed. Edin: 262-4.) Wilson, 1843. Pp. 16. (Reviewed PHREN J, 16 [1843]:
236.2 — 236.2 [Prefatory aspersions on phrenology and phrenomesmerism] in his An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism, London: Longmans & Co, 1851, vol 1: lviii-lxiii.

Editorial Information

Identifier	236.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	65
Printed page	60
Database ID	576

Original Transcription

236. COLQUHOUN, John Campbell (1785-1854) younger son of the
second baronet of Luss; educated at Gottingen; advocate at Scottish
bar and sheriff-deputy of Dumbartonshire, 1815-54; translated parts
of Kant; M Glasgow Protestant Assn; author of Iris Rebelata, an inquiry into the progress of animal magnetism (1836) and similar works
on mesmerism; gave four lectures on animal magnetism to the EDIN
PHIL ASSN during the time when G. COMBE was teaching moral
philosophy there; spoke contemptuously of the philosophical materialists in Edin. (DNB)