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OWENS, initially a member of VERNON'S entourage

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Editorial Description

assisting him in demonstrating and lecturing on phreno-mesmerism in Staffordshire and Bristol Mechanics' Inst, 1844; by the 1850s he was lecturing on his own in London; claimed to be MRCS, 1839. (? Harvey Kimpton Owen, of Surrey, MRCS Edin 1839, Med Referee to Mutual Life Assurance Office, occasional contributor to LANCET and MED GAZ.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	866.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	260
Printed page	255
Database ID	2460

Original Transcription

866. OWENS,
initially a member of VERNON'S entourage,
assisting him in demonstrating and lecturing on phreno-mesmerism in


Staffordshire and Bristol Mechanics' Inst, 1844; by the 1850s he was
lecturing on his own in London; claimed to be MRCS, 1839. (?
Harvey Kimpton Owen, of Surrey, MRCS Edin 1839, Med Referee to
Mutual Life Assurance Office, occasional contributor to LANCET and
MED GAZ.)