surgeon of Farnham, Surrey; med and religious writer; MRSC; active M Br Assn; author of Principles of Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Religious Education, 2 vols (1827). (DNB)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
834.1
— 834.1 The Reciprocal Influence of Body and Mind Considered; as it Affects the Great Questions of Education--Phrenology-- Materialism--Moral Advancement and Responsibility, etc. London: J. Hatchard & Son, 1842. Pp. 628.
834.2
— 834.2 "Of Phreno-Magnetism," in his Human Magnetism; its claims to Dispassionate Inquiry. Being An Attempt to Show the Utility of its Application for the Relief of Human Suffering, London: Churchill, 1845: 374-411. (Vindicates phrenology while opposing the substitution of mind for matter in the conceptualizations of ELLIOTSON and ENGLEDUE.)
834.3
— 834.3 "Phrenology," in his Man, in His Physical, Intellectual, Social, and Moral Relations, London: Religious Tract Society, [1847]: 155-67. ("The question is not so much as to the truth of phrenology, but as to whether the present system of phrenology be the truth.")
Editorial Information
Identifier
834.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
251
Printed page
246
Database ID
2375
Original Transcription
834. NEWNHAM, William (1790-1865), surgeon of Farnham, Surrey;
med and religious writer; MRSC; active M Br Assn; author of Principles of Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Religious Education, 2
vols (1827). (DNB)