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EASTWOOD, Joseph William

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Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Edin 1851, LSA 1851, MRCS 1851; began practice in Ripley, Derbyshire, moving to Steel Bank, Sheffield, 1858; Med Dir of the Retreat Gloucestershire to 1866, then of Dinsdale Park Retreat; lecturer on physiology at Sheffield Med Sch, 1860-65; M ETHNOL SOC, c1865; author of "On Private Asylums," J MENTAL SCI, 1863; became interested in phrenology after having had his head read in Edin in 1851. 371-

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

342.1 — 342.1 "On Craniology," J MENTAL HEALTH, 17 (1871): 78. (Cites and applauds the work of William Lauder LINDSAY for using asylum patients to test the truth of phrenology.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	342.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	115
Printed page	110
Database ID	1075

Original Transcription

342. EASTWOOD, Joseph William, MD Edin 1851, LSA 1851, MRCS
1851; began practice in Ripley, Derbyshire, moving to Steel Bank,
Sheffield, 1858; Med Dir of the Retreat Gloucestershire to 1866, then
of Dinsdale Park Retreat; lecturer on physiology at Sheffield Med
Sch, 1860-65; M ETHNOL SOC, c1865; author of "On Private Asylums," J MENTAL SCI, 1863; became interested in phrenology after
having had his head read in Edin in 1851. 371-