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GOOD, John Mason (1764-1827)

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Born: 1764

Died: 1827

Editorial Description

phys and author; active member of Guy's Hospital Physical Soc; MRCS; published History of Medicine, 1795; ed Critical Review; FRS 1805; left Unitarianism for Anglicanism, 1807; opposed SPURZHEIM in debate on phrenology in London im May 1814. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

460.1 — 460.1 "Lecture XIII on Physiognomy and Craniognomy, or the Expression of the temper and talents," in his The Book of Nature, vol 3: London: Longman, 1826, pp. 339-72. (Praises GALL as a man of learning, but doubts the morality of phrenology and questions the physiology; notes that he had had a personal interview with SPURZHEIM.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	460.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	154
Printed page	149
Database ID	1426

Original Transcription

460. GOOD, John Mason (1764-1827), phys and author; active member of Guy's Hospital Physical Soc; MRCS; published History of
Medicine, 1795; ed Critical Review; FRS 1805; left Unitarianism for
Anglicanism, 1807; opposed SPURZHEIM in debate on phrenology in
London im May 1814. (DNB)