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POOLE, Richard (1783-1871)

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Born: 1783

Died: 1871

Editorial Description

alienist, med author and educationalist; MD St Andrews 1805, FRCP Edin 1825 and joint librarian; appointed Med Supt Montrose Lunatic Asylum, 1838, succeeding W. A. F. BROWNE; ed NEW EDIN REV; ed first four numbers of PHREN J; provided G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE with testimonials, 1836; wrote the article on "Mental Diseases" for ENCY BRITANN, 7th edn, 1843 (non-phrenological); besides the articles listed below for Encyclopaedia Edinensis, he wrote the entries for "Mind" and "Education," t h e EDIN latter (written in 1819), forming the basis of his An Essay on Education (1825) and reviewed in PHREN J, 3 (1825/6): PHREN SOC from Nov 1820; M PHREN ASSN. 171-88; M

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

912.1 — 912.1 "View of Some of Dr. Spurzheim's Lectures as delivered at Edinburgh in the Winter of 1816," TRANS [EDIN] PHREN SOC, [1] (1824): 89-130.
912.2 — 912.2 "Philosophy," Encyclopaedia Edinensis, 5 (1827): 569- 79. (Largely phrenological; refers to GALL, D. WELSH and the PHREN J.)
912.3 — 912.3 "Phrenology," Encyclopaedia Edinensis, 5 (1827): 581- 603. (Note on p. 595 states that the editor in permitting the article, "has been activated solely by a regard to justice.")

Editorial Information

Identifier	912.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	276
Printed page	271
Database ID	2599

Original Transcription

912. POOLE, Richard (1783-1871), alienist, med author and educationalist; MD St Andrews 1805, FRCP Edin 1825 and joint librarian;
appointed Med Supt Montrose Lunatic Asylum, 1838, succeeding W.
A. F. BROWNE; ed NEW EDIN REV; ed first four numbers of PHREN
J; provided G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE with testimonials, 1836;
wrote the article on "Mental Diseases" for ENCY BRITANN, 7th edn,
1843 (non-phrenological); besides the articles listed below for Encyclopaedia Edinensis, he wrote the entries for "Mind" and "Education,"


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EDIN
latter (written in 1819), forming the basis of his An Essay on
Education (1825) and reviewed in PHREN J, 3 (1825/6):
PHREN SOC from Nov 1820; M PHREN ASSN.
171-88; M