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40: 1510: 824:"While defending the fundamental principle that the brain is the organ of the mind.... the phrenologists were exposed to violent abuse, ridicule and vituperation.... it was, of course, their craniological conclusions, their dissection of the mind into a number of component faculties.... that was the main point of attack, and that, it must be allowed, readily leant itself to burlesque...." James Crichton-Browne (1924) 262: 285:. The Society grew rapidly; in 1826, it had 120 members, an estimated one third of whom had a medical background. The Society acquired large numbers of phrenological artefacts, such as marked porcelain heads indicating the location of cerebral organs, and endocranial casts of individuals with unusual personalities. Their museum was located on Chambers Street. 546:, and was in some emotional turmoil: on 21 September, after his return to England, he recorded a vivid and disturbing dream in which he seemed to be involved in an execution at which the corpse came to life and joked about having died as a hero. Darwin committed his "gigantic blunder" concerning the parallel roads of 354:
concerning the expression of the human emotions. Bell held that human anatomy uniquely allowed the expression of the human moral self while Browne argued that there were no absolute distinctions between human and animal anatomy. Charles Darwin, then a 17-year-old student at the university, was there
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in Edinburgh. Over the course of ten months in 1828, Burke and Hare murdered sixteen people and sold the bodies for dissection in the private anatomy schools. Burke was executed on 28 January 1829, while Hare turned King's evidence; Burke was publicly dissected by Professor Monro the next day, and
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John Gordon, who called phrenology a "mixture of gross errors" and "extravagant absurdities". In response, Spurzheim went to Edinburgh to take part in public debates and to perform brain dissections in public. Whilst he was received politely by the scientific and medical community there, many were
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with the proceeds of a large inheritance, appointed himself as its editor in 1837. In the 1850s, Watson conducted an extensive correspondence with Charles Darwin concerning the geographical distribution of British plant species, and Darwin made generous acknowledgement of Watson's scientific
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The Edinburgh Phrenological Society received a financial boost by the death of a wealthy supporter in 1832. William Ramsay Henderson left a large bequest to the Edinburgh Society to promote phrenology as it saw fit. The Henderson Trust enabled the society to publish an inexpensive edition of
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in a debate, arguing that phrenology explained the intellectual and moral abilities of mankind. Both sides claimed victory after the lengthy debate, but the Medical Society refused to publish an account. This prompted the Edinburgh Phrenological Society to establish its own journal in 1824:
759:"You interest me very much, Mr Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolicocephalic a skull or such well marked supra-orbital development.... A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum..." – Arthur Conan Doyle 530:: Darwin attended the University of Edinburgh Medical School and, as an active member of Plinian Society, observed the 1826-1827 controversies with phrenologist William A.F. Browne. In 1838, some eleven years after his hurried departure, 398:. It was denounced as an attack on faith and morals.... read today, it must be regarded as really rather more orthodox in its teaching than some of the lucubrations of the Dean of St Paul's and the Bishop of Durham". 598:, an extended essay on the neurological foundations of psychological life. Laycock was friendly with asylum reformer William A.F. Browne and was an important influence on Browne's son, Sir James Crichton-Browne. 512:. Chambers' wife, Anne Kirkwood, transcribed the manuscript for the publishers (dictated by her husband) so that they would not recognise its origins. In a strange parallel, Prince Albert read it aloud to 831:
The Henderson Trust was wound up in 2012. Many of the society's phrenological artefacts survive today, having passed to the University of Edinburgh's Anatomical Museum under the guidance of Professor
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In the mid-1820s, a split emerged between the Christian phrenologists and Combe's closer associates. Matters came to a head when Combe and his supporters passed a motion banning the discussion of
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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, see especially pages 16 and 60. Ambitious and sweeping interpretation of western culture and civilization in terms of an asymmetric neurology of mind.
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was a classic of popular science. In the 1840s, Nichol became addicted to prescription opiates, and he recorded his successful hydropathic rehabilitation in his autobiographical correspondence
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inherent in phrenology. George Combe, a lawyer who had previously been skeptical, became a convert to phrenology after listening to Spurzheim's commentary as he dissected a human brain.
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the phrenologists were permitted to examine his skull. Face masks of both men – a death-mask for Burke and a life-mask for Hare – form part of the Edinburgh phrenology collection.
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of the brain. This attracted the opposition of almost all members of the Plinian Society and, again, Darwin observed the ensuing outrage. In his private notebooks, including the
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some twenty years later, in 1859; the book was translated into many languages, and became a staple scientific text and a key fixture of modern scientific culture.
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in 1828. After a slow start, it became an international bestseller in the 19th century, with around 350,000 copies sold. Almost a century later, psychiatrist Sir
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and later supported himself as a hired lecturer for literature, education, and phrenology. He became an educational reformer, a pioneering proponent of
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Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men who have died during the last thirty years and in their lives did much to make the city what it now is
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being much in demand. Combe devoted his later years to international travel, lecturing on phrenology. He was preparing the ninth edition of
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launched a large scale craniometric investigation of the supposed racial stereotypes with decisively negative results for the proponents of
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made a living from phrenology travelling throughout Britain and Ireland. It was her son who left for Australia and published an account of
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On 29 February 1924, Sir James Crichton-Browne (the son of William A.F. Browne) delivered the Ramsay Henderson Bequest Lecture entitled
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The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded on 22 February 1820, by the Combe brothers with the support of the Evangelical minister
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and – in 1871 – the first Professor of Political Economy (and Mercantile Law) at Edinburgh University. In later life, Hodgson lived at
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Interest in phrenology declined in Edinburgh in the 1840s. Some of the phrenologists' concerns drifted into the related fields of
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in 1840, and then much more extensively by the eccentric Brighton medical practitioner Arthur Ladbroke Wigan in his 1844 treatise
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in the Summer of 1845. It became an international bestseller and a powerful public influence, situated midway between Combe's
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in 1834. The latter, especially, sold well in Great Britain and the United States, with numerous editions and reprintings.
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Kaufman, Matthew H. (October 1998). "The Edinburgh phrenological debate of 1823 held in the Royal Medical Society".
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in which he recorded a generous appreciation of the role of the Edinburgh phrenologists in the later development of
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rather than philosophical or religious terms. Phrenologists discounted supernatural explanations and stressed the
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and saw it as a means of advancing society by social reform (improving the material conditions of human life).
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to listen. On 27 March 1827, Browne advanced phrenological theories concerning the human mind in terms of the
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In December 1826, the atheistic phrenologist William A.F. Browne caused a sensation at the university's
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The activities of the Edinburgh phrenologists have enjoyed an unusual afterlife in the history and
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The last recorded meeting of the Society took place in 1870. The Society's museum closed in 1886.
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Society co-founder and president Andrew Combe had two successful publications in the early 1830s:
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Members published articles, gave lectures, and defended phrenology. Critics included philosopher
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The last recorded meeting of the Society took place in 1870. The Society's museum closed in 1886.
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written ten years later, Darwin commented sympathetically on the views of the phrenologists.
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while on this Scottish trip, suggesting an element of mental distraction. He published
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as its formal procedures did not conform to the usual standards of scientific method.
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Edinburgh phrenologists included George and Andrew Combe; asylum doctor and reformer
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Phrenology emerged from the views of the medical doctor and scientific researcher
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was dedicated to Andrew Combe. In 1866, after his twenty years of leadership at
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and his undergraduate haunts, recording his psychological speculations in the
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On Morbid Manifestations of the Organ of Language, as connected with Insanity
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Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: a study in nineteenth century thought
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and returned to Edinburgh in 1838 when formulating his concepts concerning
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in which he speculated on the differential development of the two human
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was one of George Combe's "influential disciples". He was a pioneering
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Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and Evolutionist
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was picked up rather casually by the London society physician Sir
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in the Society, effectively silencing their critics. In response,
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aesthetic, and comparable to the later cultural influences of
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Faces of Degeneration: a European disorder, c. 1848 – c. 1918
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Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism
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Phrenologists from the Society applied their methods to the
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on its first appearance was received in Edinburgh with an
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in 18th-century Vienna. Gall suggested that facets of the
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is that the brain is the organ of the mind and that human
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Former mental health organisations in the United Kingdom
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Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line.
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asylum in Dumfries, Browne was elected President of the
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Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
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Van Wyhe, John (2004). "2004HisSc..42..313V Page 313".
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when he died while receiving hydrotherapy treatment at
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with an attack on the recently republished theories of
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The Constitution of Man in relation to External Objects
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Impairment of Language, The Result of Cerebral Disease
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to a disturbance in the neurological organization of
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published a searching review of this topic entitled
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outside Edinburgh, and was elected President of the
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Phrenological Journal and Magazine of Moral Science
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Index

Phrenological Society of Edinburgh
an unmarked bay window
Chambers Street
phrenology
George Combe
Andrew Combe
George Combe
Edinburgh
Andrew Combe
phrenology
Great Britain
British Isles
phrenology
behaviour
neuropsychological
modularity of mind
evolutionary theory
psychiatric disorder
moral treatment
pseudoscience
William A.F. Browne
James Crichton-Browne
Robert Chambers
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
William Ballantyne Hodgson
John Pringle Nichol
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Charles Darwin
Plinian Society
natural selection

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