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ROGET, Peter Mark (1779-1869)

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Born: 1779

Died: 1869

Editorial Description

phys, physiologist, author of the thesaurus; MD Edin, 1798; phys to Manchester Royal infirmary, 1805; first Fullerian prof of physiology at Roy Inst, London, 1833- 6; FRS, 1815; friend of BOSTOCK and other Philosophical Radicals. (DNB; and A56)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

970.1 — 970.1 "Cranioscopy," ENCY BRIT, Supplement to the 4th, 5th, and 6th edns, vol 3 (1824): 419-37. (The article was written in 1818.)
970.2 — 970.2 Treatises on Physiology and Phrenology from the Seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Edin: A & C Black, 1838. 2 vols. 1st Amer edn, Phil, 1839.
970.3 — 970.3 "Phrenology," ENCY BRIT, 7th edn, vol 17 (1842): 454-73. (The 1824 publication together with a six-page afterword on why the encyclopaedia's views had not changed since then, and on phrenology's subsequent career.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	970.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	288
Printed page	283
Database ID	2717

Original Transcription

970. ROGET, Peter Mark (1779-1869), phys, physiologist, author of
the thesaurus; MD Edin, 1798; phys to Manchester Royal infirmary,
1805; first Fullerian prof of physiology at Roy Inst, London, 1833-
6; FRS, 1815; friend of BOSTOCK and other Philosophical Radicals.
(DNB; and A56)