C031BE, DR. ANDREW, was born in Edinburgh, October 27, 1797, the fifteenth child end seventh son of a family, which numbered seventeen In all. Ilis father was a respectable brewer In Edinburgh, and a man of superior mind and integrity ; his mother also was a superior person. Educated in his boyhood and youth very much under the care of his elder brother George, the subject of the following notice, he chose the medical profession ; end, having studied at Edinburgh and Paris, and taken the degree of 3I.D., he began in Edinburgh in 1823. A pulmonary complaint under which o had laboured since 1819, and which obliged hint to make frequent journeys into warmer climate..., precluded him from such an active career as a physician as ho might otherwise have been fitted for. In 1536 he was appointed Consulting Physician to the King of the Belgians. As early as 1818 he ha I, like his brother George, given Ills attention to phrenology and become a convert to it ; and both (luring his practice as a physician end afterward., he continued to advocate Its doctrines through the ' Phrenological Journal.' lie was also a distinguishes' writer on general scientific and medical subject.. The following is a list of his most important separate works:—'Observa tions on Mental Derangements,' 12ino, Edinburgh, 1831: 'The l'rin ciples of Physiology applied to the preservation of health, and to the improvement of physical and mental Education,' Svo, Edinburgh, 1S34—a work which has been highly appreciated, and has gone through sixteen or seventeen editions; The Physiology of Digestion con sidered with relation to the principles of Dietetics,' Edinburgh, 1836, also a most popular and useful work ; 'A Treatise on the Physiological and Moral Management of Infancy,' Svo, Edinburgh, 1840, eight edltione of which have been sold. These works were written by Dr.
Combo in the intervals during which he enjoyed comparative freedom from the malady which he knew was to carry him away. The last years of his life were spent by him as a confirmed invalid, either shut up in his room in Edinburgh, or seeking health by continued travelling and sea-voyages. In 1542 he was in Madeira. The mildness of his demeauonr during his long illness, and the zeal with which he con tinued to forward every scheme of benevolence which accorded with his sense of what was right and expedient, obtained him the peculiar regards of all who knew him. His death, long expected, took place on the 9th of August 1847; and an interesting and affectionate account of his 'Life and Correspondence' was published in 1850 by his brother George.