Combe, Andrew:

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THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION CONSIDERED WITH RELATION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DIETETICS...SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. A very interesting book which, in this second edition, brought the findings and observations of William Beaumont to the English reading public. Combe readily admits his heavy indebtedness to Beaumont's 1833 Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice: "In preparing the present volume for the press, I have derived the utmost advantage from a very valuable work by Dr. Beaumont....I have not scrupled to make the freest and most ample use [of Beaumont's work, it] being still inaccessible to the British reader...." In 1838, Combe edited the first Edinburgh edition of Beaumont's work. Thomas W. Streeter, in his note regarding that edition, states: "There is a long reference to an earlier book by Dr. Combe, in which he quotes extensively from Beaumont, in the publisher's preface to the Burlington, Vermont, 1847, edition of Beaumont." This is that work.Combe was a physician and phrenologist, and with his brother was one of the founders of the Phrenological Journal.

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