Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands.

  • Hewett Watson
Date:
1836
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Credit: Statistics of phrenology : being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    already a greater number of persons moderately well in- structed in phrcnoloiry, tliau there are of persons equally advanced in geology, entomology, botan)', astronomy, or similar sciences. They may be guessed at 5000. Believers in Phrenology. — In all ])robabiIity, very few towns in England, or villages In Scotland, are now with- out some few individuals favourably disi^osed towards phrenology; and as facilities for instruction are afforded to them, the numbers of competent phrenologists will rapidly increase. It can scarcely be questioned that, ia the last ten years, the numbers of persons interested in the science, and desirous of obtaining some knowledge of it, have increased more than twenty-fold. It has been expressly stated that there are many believers, and persons interested, in Aljth, Beverley, Bradford, Dunse, Gala- shiels, Glasgow, Haddington, Halifax, Hawick, Hudders- field, Hull, Kelso, Kilmarnock, Leeds, Melrose, ^Nlonifeith, Montrose, Newcastle, &c. i*v-c.; that the subject is gaining ground in Cupar, Derby, Liverpool, London, Notting« ham, Wrexham, and other places ; tliat the feeling is gene- rally favourable in Bath, Belfast, Dublin, and Greenock; that about twenty persons in Kugby and Forfar, respec- tively, are believers; a hundred and thirty to a hundred and fifty in Dunfermline ; five or six hundred in Dundee; six or seven hundred in Portsmouth; a very great number (two or three hundred being only a moderate portion of them) in ^Manchester; and in London and Edinburgh they may be estimated at thousands. If these places, taken together, give any approach to a fair average for the British Islands, the aggregate of j^ersons favourably inclined to the science must be very many thousands ; and it is far from unlikely that the greater part of these have become believers in the general principles of the science within half-a-dozen years, — certainly Avithin a dozen years. Whatever the present immbcrs may be, they are L i Liw wmMiii
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