About Henry Freke
Lived 1813 – 1888 (aged 74–75). Henry Freke was a physician.
Henry Freke (1813–1888) was an Irish physician and early evolutionary writer.
Biography
Freke took a B. A. at Trinity in 1840, his M. B. in 1845 and his M.D. in 1855. He worked as a physician in various hospitals in Dublin and worked at the first Irish lunatic asylum founded by Jonathan Swift. He is credited for developing the concept of negative entropy. However, in the Historical Sketch which first appeared in the 3rd Edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1861), Freke is listed as an early evolution proponent.
Publications Reflections on Organization, or Suggestions for the Construction of an Organic Atomic Theory (1848) On the Origin of Species by Means of Organic Affinity (1861) An Appeal to Physiologists and the Press (1862)
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Irish physician (1813–1888)
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