We announce with great regret the death of Dr. Andrew
Combe; which oc- curred at Gargle Mill, near Edinburgh, on the night of Monday last. Dr. Combs was only forty-nine years of age; and, although he had long been afflicted by disease of the lungs, no expectations were entertained of his dissolution until within a week of that event. His immediate illness was a sudden attack of bowel com- plaint, under the weakening influence of which he sank without pain. Dr. Combs was one of the Physicians in ordinary to the Queen, and Corresponding Member of the Imperial and Royal Society of Physicians of Vienna; and his works—the chief of which were, The Principles of Physiology applied to the Preservation of Health, A Treatise on the Physiological and Moral Management of Infancy, and The Physiology of Digestion—had passed through a number of editions, and attained a celebrity rarely equalled, both in Europe and America. Just before his last attack of illness he was actively engaged in the preparation of a communication, intended for insertion in the Times, on a subject of the greatest moment within his peculiar branches of philanthropic inquiry, namely, the nature and causes of the ship fever which has swept off within the last few months so many hundreds of the unfortunate Irish in their emigration to the United States. —Times.
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