Edin 1835; student of John MACKINTOSH in Edin; student pres Roy Med Soc; provided a testimonial on Phrenology for G. MACKENZIE, 1836; practiced in Portsmouth from 1835 to death; helped found the Royal Portsmouth, Portsea and Gosport Hosp, 1846, as well as various public baths and washhouses; co-ed the ZOIST with ELLIOTSON; promoter of mesmerism and materialism; a leading figure in both the PORTSMOUTH and the LONDON PHREN SOC; lectured on phrenology at Portsmouth Lit & Phil Soc, 1834-5 and at Hampshire Phil Soc, 1836, gave 8 lectures at the Darwen Mechanics' Inst, 1840; M PHREN ASSN, his speech of 1842 being largely responsible for the Association's dissolution and for the revival of interest in phrenology among British radicals. (MEB; BJM, 29 Jan 1859: 89-90; R. COOPER, 1859; and Wheeler: 122.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
376.1
— 376.1 Some Account of Phrenology, its Nature, Principles, and Uses. Chichester: printed, 1837. Pp. 22. (Unlocated; an abstract of his lecture to the Chichester Lit & Phil Soc, 1836, reviewed PHREN J, 10 [1836/7]: 740-1.)
376.2
— 376.2 "Apoplectic Attack Apparently Not Wholly Suspending the Function of an Organ in the State of High Excitement Shortly Before, (communicated by Dr. Abram Cox)," PHREN J, 11 (1838): 295-96.
376.3
— 376.3 Phrenology, [Three letters] from W. C. Engledue, M.D. to the Rev. Sir H. Thompson, Bart. Portsmouth: printed by W. Harrison, 1839. (3d each) THOMPSON had called Engledue's phrenology "infidel absurdity" after having heard his lectures in Fareham. (See also, STANILAND, 1839.)
376.4
— 376.4 Cerebral Physiology and Materialism, with the result of the application of animal magnetism to the cerebral organs. An address delivered to the Phrenological Association in London, June 20th, 1842. With a letter from Dr. Elliotson, on mesmeric phrenology and materialism. London: H. Bailliere, 1842. Pp. 32. [Roy Med & Chirurg Soc] (Another edition of 1842 was published by the radical publisher James Watson and sold at 4d; first published in Med Times, 2 July 1842: 209-14, the Address was reprinted in the Owenite NEW MORAL WORLD, 17 Sept.-8 Oct. 1842, and was subsequently translated into German.)
376.5
— 376.5 "Cerebral Physiology," ZOIST, 1 (1843): 5-25. (Reviews the reception to GALL'S doctrine as a criticism of the "progress" of civilization.)
376.6
— 376.6 "Miss Martineau and her Traducers," ZOIST, 3 (1845): 86-96.
376.7
— 376.7 "The Lecture Mania--the medical profession--Mr. Spencer Hall," ZOIST, 1 (1843): 95-100. (Argues for a more respectable promotion of phreno-mesmerism.)
376.14
— 376.14 *"Facts against Fancy," ZOIST, 3 (1845): 1-22. (Takes up William NEWNHAM'S attack on phreno-mesmerism in his Human Magnetism [1845].)
376.15
— 376.15 *"Messrs. Forbes, Wakley, & Co, the Anti-mesmeric crusaders," ZOIST, 4 (1847): 584-601. (See also, PRIDEAUX, 1847.)
376.16
— 376.16 *"Physical Well-being, a necessary preliminary to Moral and Intellectual progression," ZOIST, 5 (1847): 82-101. ("It is our duty to show how far our science will promote the rational and benevolent movements of the ages.")
376.17
— 376.17 "The Decline and Fall of the Edinburgh Phrenological Journal," ZOIST, 5 (1848): 412-24. (Reprinted in the REA- SONER, 16 Feb 1848: 164-66.)
376.18
— 376.18 *"Capital Punishment; or killing according to law," ZOIST, 7 (1850): 331-51 (with notes by ELLIOTSON: 351-3).
Editorial Information
Identifier
376.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
128
Printed page
123
Database ID
1201
Original Transcription
376. ENGLEDUE, William Collins (1813-58), MD Edin 1835; student
of John MACKINTOSH in Edin; student pres Roy Med Soc; provided
a testimonial on Phrenology for G. MACKENZIE, 1836; practiced in
Portsmouth from 1835 to death; helped found the Royal Portsmouth,
Portsea and Gosport Hosp, 1846, as well as various public baths and
washhouses; co-ed the ZOIST with ELLIOTSON; promoter of mesmerism
and materialism; a leading figure in both the PORTSMOUTH and the
LONDON PHREN SOC; lectured on phrenology at Portsmouth Lit &
Phil Soc, 1834-5 and at Hampshire Phil Soc, 1836, gave 8 lectures
at the Darwen Mechanics' Inst, 1840; M PHREN ASSN, his speech of
1842 being largely responsible for the Association's dissolution and
for the revival of interest in phrenology among British radicals.
(MEB; BJM, 29 Jan 1859: 89-90; R. COOPER, 1859; and Wheeler:
122.)