John Ferriar
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"Sterne has contrived to give a ludicrous turn to those passages which he took from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, a book, once the favourite of the learned and the witty, and ą source of surreptitious learning to many others besides our author."--Illustrations of Sterne (1798) by John Ferriar |
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John Ferriar (1761 - 1815), was a Scottish physician, bibliophile and writer, noted for his studies of the causes of diseases such as typhoid.
He published Essay on Massinger, Medical Histories and Reflections 1792-5-8, Illustrations of Sterne (1798) and An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions. A review of this essay appears in The Quarterly.
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Anomalistic psychology, Bibliomania, Edward Holme, Ghost, James Watt junior, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, List of Scottish poets, Madoc (poem), Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Marko Pohlin, Richard Pearson (physician), Robert Burton, Samuel Warren (British lawyer), The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The Portico Library, Thomas Barnes (Unitarian), Thomas Walker (merchant)
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