JOHN ABERCROMBIE BIOGRAPHY
JOHN ABERCROMBIE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ABERCROMBIE, JOHN (1780-1844). —Physician and writer on mental science, s. of a minister, was born at Aberdeen, and ed. at the Grammar School and Marischal College there. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, in which city he practised as a physician. He made valuable contributions to the literature of his profession, and pub. two works, Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual Powers (1830) and The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings (1833), which, though popular at the time of their publication, have long been superseded. For his services as a physician and philanthropist he received many marks of distinction, including the Rectorship of Marischal College .