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HIGGINSON, Alfred (1808-1884)

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Born: 1808

Died: 1884

Editorial Description

MRSC 1832; Unitarian; brotherin-law of Harriet MARTINEAU; hon surgeon Liverpool South Dispensary; demonstrator of anatomy at Liverpool Med Sch, 1840-4; contributed to Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology; inventor of Higginson's syringe; lectured on anatomical and physiological aspects of phrenology relative to existing knowledge of the structure and funetions of the brain, Liverpool Lit & Phil Soc, 1838 (commentary in Liverpool Times, 3 Apr 1838: 6; attacked in PHREN J, 11 [1838]: 337-8); debated with R. COX. (Biographical notice: Proc Roy Soc Med, 25 [1932]: 635-8.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	537.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	171
Printed page	166
Database ID	1577

Original Transcription

537. HIGGINSON, Alfred (1808-84), MRSC 1832; Unitarian; brotherin-law of Harriet MARTINEAU; hon surgeon Liverpool South Dispensary; demonstrator of anatomy at Liverpool Med Sch, 1840-4; contributed to Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology; inventor of Higginson's syringe; lectured on anatomical and physiological aspects of
phrenology relative to existing knowledge of the structure and funetions of the brain, Liverpool Lit & Phil Soc, 1838 (commentary in
Liverpool Times, 3 Apr 1838: 6; attacked in PHREN J, 11 [1838]:
337-8); debated with R. COX. (Biographical notice: Proc Roy Soc
Med, 25 [1932]: 635-8.)