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Robert Macnish (1802–37) DR. ROBERT MACNISH, a brilliant physician and man of letters, who died on January 16, 1837, was born at Glasgow on February 15, 1802, the son and grandson of medical men. He obtained the degree of master of surgery at the early age of eighteen years, and first served as assistant to a general practitioner for eighteen months. He then went to Paris, where he attended the lectures of Broussais and Dupuytren and made the acquaintance of Gall, who pointed out Macnish to his fellow students as presenting a remarkable development of the organ of comparison.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 139, 123–124 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139123a0
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