William Collins Engledue

William Collins Engledue
Born1813
Died30 December 1858
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forMesmerism, Phrenology, The Zoist
Scientific career
Fieldsmedicine

William Collins Engledue (1813 30 December 1858), MD (Edinburgh, 1835), MRCS (Edinburgh, 1835), MRCS (London, 1835), LSA (1835) was an English physician, surgeon, apothecary, mesmerist, phrenologist – and, in concert with John Elliotson, M.D., the co-editor of The Zoist.

A former President of the British Phrenological Association, Engledue was ostracized by both his medical colleagues – for his dedication to mesmerism and phrenology – and by the majority of phrenologists – for his rejection of their "socio-religious", spiritual position, in favour of a scientific, materialist, brain-centred position that, in effect, reduced mental operations to physical forces.