lawyer, lecturer and controversialist; pres Western Phren Soc, Buffalo; questioned SPURZ- HEIM'S classification of the mental organs and proposed a vast expansion in their number; from the new mesmerism he evolved 'etherology'. (A. A. Walsh, "A Note on the Origins of 'Modern Spiritualism'," J Hist Med, 28 [1973]: 163-71.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
483.1
— 483.1 Compendium of the Phreno-Philosophy of Human Nature. London: Edward T. Whitfield; Boston: J. Monroe, 1850. Pp. 121.
483.2
— 483.2 Etherology, and the Phreno-Philosophy of Mesmerism and Magic Eloquence: including a new Philosophy of Sleep and of Consciousness, with a Review of the Pretensions of Phreno- Magnetism, Electro-Biology, etc. Revised and edited by W. G. Le Duc. London: Edward T. Whitfield; Boston: J. Monroe, 1850. Pp. 251. (Reviewed in M. F. Ossli, "The New Science," in her Life Without and Life Within, 1860: 169-73.)
483.3
— 483.3 Phreno-Geology: the Progressive Creation of Man, Indicated by Natural History, and Confirmed by Discoveries which connect the Organization and Functions of the Brain with the Successive Geological Periods. London: Edward T. Whitfield; Boston: J. Monroe, 1851. Pp. 216.
Editorial Information
Identifier
483.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
159
Printed page
154
Database ID
1473
Original Transcription
483. GRIMES, James Stanley (1807-1903), lawyer, lecturer and
controversialist; pres Western Phren Soc, Buffalo; questioned SPURZ-
HEIM'S classification of the mental organs and proposed a vast expansion in their number; from the new mesmerism he evolved 'etherology'. (A. A. Walsh, "A Note on the Origins of 'Modern Spiritualism'," J Hist Med, 28 [1973]: 163-71.)