Edin 1826; son of a wealthy London. pork butcher; rejected his Calvinist upbringing and became a Scotch Baptist while in Edin, and remained an advocate of nonconformity; "a good and sincere liberal," as the radical James Linton called him, he was ubiquitous as a radical reformer (free-trade, anti-Church State, republicanism, etc.) and stood unsuccessfully as MP for Northampton in 1847 with Chartist backing; M Westminster Med Soc; pres Jennerian Inst, c1830; sec Med Reform Assn, 1834; practiced in London from 1827 to death; a leading homoeopath in the 1840s, he lectured on materia medica at the Homoeopathic Hospital, 1851; joint ed LON MED & SURG J, 1828-9; and Notes on a New Truth [i.e. homoeopathy], 1856-69; author of numerous works on botany, grammar, religion and medicine and a contributor to various med journals; published and helped to edit the PHREN (ANTHROP) MAG & CHRISTIAN PHYS, 1835-9, the organ of the 100-member Finsbury Discussion Soc, which, in 1836, became the Anthrop Soc; M EDIN PHREN SOC, 1826, LONDON PHREN SOC, and PHREN ASSN; began lecturing on phrenology the same year he took up med practice in London and became one of the most familiar figures in the educational insts in London and the provinces. (DNB; Diary [1870]; J. F. Clarke, 1874: 125; Homoeopathic Med Dir, 1870: 320-22.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
379.1
— 379.1 Manual of Phrenology [14 essays]. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, ND, Pp. 85. [Univ Coll, London, Lib]
379.2
— 379.2 *Internal Evidences of Christianity Deduced from Phrenology, By Medicus, Member of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. Edin & London: John Anderson jun, 1827. Pp. 138. [Combe Coll, NLS] (Published anon; a 2nd edn appeared in 1836/7, published in London and Edin by L. E. Palmer; an American edn containing notes and a preface by Joseph A. WARNE was published by W. Pierce in Boston in 1837.)
379.3
— 379.3 "Insanity--Phrenology: Westminster Medical Society," LANCET, 26 Apr 1828: 107-8. (Epps opposed George Mann Burrows on the issue of organic lesions in the deranged mind. On this subject see also Epps' letter to the editor, LANCET, 10 May 1828: 187-8.)
379.4
— 379.4 Horae Phrenologicae: being 3 phrenological essays [morality, happiness and veneration]. London: printed for the author, 1829. 2nd edn, London: Ebenezer Palmer, 1834; Boston edn: Marsh, Capon & Lyon, 1835, with notes by the Rev. John PIERPONT.
379.5
— 379.5 "Essay on the Gradual Development of the Nervous System, from the Zoophyte to Man; read before the London Phrenological Society, Dec. 1, 1828, by John Epps, M.D.," LON MED & SURG J, 2 (1829): 35-46, 150-6, 231-8.
379.6
— 379.6 "Medical Pathology. Read before the London Phrenological Society, 1829," LON MED & SURG J, 2 (1829): 503-7.
379.7
— 379.7 "[Handbill on] Phrenology ... Three Lectures, the first in the Lecture Room of the Mechanics' Institution. The 2nd & 3rd at the Lyceum Lecture Room. September 24, 26 & 29th 1833. Liverpool." [MS Collection of Reports and Private Letters by W. J Roberts on the Liverpool Mechanics' Inst, 1826-40: BL: 1866 e 7]
379.8
— 379.8 "Phrenology, by John Epps, M.D.," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 1 (1835) serially, 13 essays.
379.9
— 379.9 "Phrenology and Education. Essay read before the Anthropological Society, September 1st, 1836," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1836): 29-36, 61-70, and (1837): 125- 31.
379.10
— 379.10 "Phrenology and Criminal Legislation, and Criminal Discipline. An essay read before the Anthropological Society January 26 1837," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 157-64, 189-96, 221-8.
379.11
— 379.11 "A Phrenological Analysis of the History of a Boy, born blind and deaf. Read before Anthropological Society, March 16, 1837," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 269-76, 285-8.
379.12
— 379.12 "Extracts from a Lecture on the Organ of Veneration, delivered at Windsor, May 1837," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 325-31.
379.13
— 379.13 "Essay on the Words 'Flesh' and 'Spirit'," Phrenologically Considered. Read before the Anthropological Society, July 6, 1837," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 373-80.
379.14
— 379.14 "Beneficial Application of Phrenology in the Treatment of Cerebral Disease. Communicated to the Anthropological Society," CHRIST PHYS & ANTHROP MAG, 2 (1837): 363-4; (then) ANTHROP & CHRIST PHYS, 3 (1837): 45-8, 95 and (1838): 144.
379.15
— 379.15 "Insanity and Phrenology. Remarks on a Work by Dr. Allen entitled, 'On the Classification of the Insane', Read before the Anthropological Society, Oct. 5 1837," ANTHROP & CHRIST PHYS, 3 (1837): 237-44, 277-85.
379.16
— 379.16 "A Few Remarks on G. and Andrew Combe's Functions of the Cerebellum. Read at the Anthropological Society March 15th 1838," ANTHROP & CHRIST PHYS, 3 (1838): 237-44, 277-85.
379.17
— 379.17 "On the Organization and the Character of Ebenezer
379.18
— 379.18 "Dr. Epps Lectures on Phrenology," Manchester Guardian, 8 Dec 1838: 3. (Summary of his Manchester lectures)
379.19
— 379.19 "Phrenology and Christianity. An essay read before the Anthropological Society, December 1838," PHREN (ANTHROP) MAG & CHRIST PHYS, 4 (1839): 129-36, 161-8.
379.20
— 379.20 "Case of Insanity, with disease of several parts of the brain--Phrenological Association--read by William Weir," PHREN J, 14 (1841): 23-4.
Editorial Information
Identifier
379.
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Person
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Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
130
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Original Transcription
379. EPPS, John (1805-69), MD Edin 1826; son of a wealthy London.
pork butcher; rejected his Calvinist upbringing and became a Scotch
Baptist while in Edin, and remained an advocate of nonconformity;
"a good and sincere liberal," as the radical James Linton called him,
he was ubiquitous as a radical reformer (free-trade, anti-Church
State, republicanism, etc.) and stood unsuccessfully as MP for Northampton in 1847 with Chartist backing; M Westminster Med Soc; pres
Jennerian Inst, c1830; sec Med Reform Assn, 1834; practiced in London from 1827 to death; a leading homoeopath in the 1840s, he lectured on materia medica at the Homoeopathic Hospital, 1851; joint ed
LON MED & SURG J, 1828-9; and Notes on a New Truth [i.e. homoeopathy], 1856-69; author of numerous works on botany, grammar, religion and medicine and a contributor to various med journals; published and helped to edit the PHREN (ANTHROP) MAG & CHRISTIAN
PHYS, 1835-9, the organ of the 100-member Finsbury Discussion Soc,
which, in 1836, became the Anthrop Soc; M EDIN PHREN SOC, 1826,
LONDON PHREN SOC, and PHREN ASSN; began lecturing on phrenology the same year he took up med practice in London and became
one of the most familiar figures in the educational insts in London
and the provinces. (DNB; Diary [1870]; J. F. Clarke, 1874: 125;
Homoeopathic Med Dir, 1870: 320-22.)