Quotes:Macnish, Robert

Zirkoff, Boris

Macnish, Robert. Scottish author and physician, b. at Glasgow, Feb. 15, 1802, into a medical family; d. of influenza, Jan. 16, 1837. Obtained degree of magister chirurgiae at the Univ, of Glasgow, at the early age of eighteen. After studies in Paris, he returned to his native city and graduated as M.D. in 1825. His wide popularity, however, was the result of his fiction stories, among them one entitled “The Metempsychosis” published in Blackwood’s. His most important work was *The Philosophy of Sleep (Glasgow, 1830; 3rd ed., 1836). Macnish suffered from ill health most of his short life; in later years he was greatly interested in the borderland between medicine and psychology, and the work of James Braid along lines of hypnotism. His Introduction to Phrenology (1835) sold some ten thousand copies.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 656