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RUMBALL, James Quilter (1795-1872)

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Metadata

Born: 1795

Died: 1872

Postnominals: MRCS

Editorial Description

1817, LSA 1822; son of John Rumball, surgeon of Abington; itinerant phrenologist; claimed to have studied under H. MONRO at Bethlehem Asylum and to have been a pupil of SPURZHEIM, c1820; wrote several med works of dubious value and, in 1844, on the need for the Br Assn to recognize phrenology; proprietor of the unlicensed Harpenden Hall Asylum for the Insane at St Albans, Herts; established a phrenology shop at 3 King William St, The Strand, London, 1840, to compete with DONOVAN'S establishment; M PHREN ASSN; proposed a new Br Phren Soc and magazine in Jan 1844--neither of which appears to have materialized; lectured on phrenology in London and in the provinces, 1830s and 1840s; to large audiences at the Adelaide Gallery, 1843; conducted a strenuous campaign against materialism and mesmerism, 1843, pursuing VERNON around England, and debating with HICKS at Gloucester, 1845; proposed (and may have actually produced) The Anti-Mesmerist, c1850; debated with BRINDLEY in Worcester, 1839-40, and in Liverpool, 1842; read Herbert SPENCER'S head. (MEB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

984.1 — 984.1 "Mr. Rumball's [4] Lectures on Phrenology [in Liverpool Med Inst]," Liverpool Standard, 12 Jan 1838: 4; 23 Jan 1838: 4; 30 Jan 1838: 3; 2 Feb 1838: 4; 6 Feb 1838: 4. (Verbatim accounts with editorial comments.).
984.2 — 984.2 "A Letter on the Organ of Wit," PHREN J, 11 (1838): 391-3.
984.3 — 984.3 M'Naughten. A Letter to the Lord Chancellor [Broug ham], upon Insanity [with an appendix on the discussion on M'Naughten in the House of Lords between Lyndhurst and
984.4 — 984.4 On the Claims which Phrenology has to be considered a Science: Address to the British Association assembled at Plymouth, 1841. Plymouth: Hearder; London: John Churchill, 1841. Pp. 13. (Unlocated; cited in PHREN J, 15 [1842]: 96.)
984.5 — 984.5 "Instinct and Reason; or the Intellectual Difference Between Man and Animals," J PSYCH MED, 4 (July 1851): 392- 407.
984.6 — 984.6 "On Instinct and Reason; or the Intellectual Difference Between Man and Animals," Med Critic & Psych J, NS 2 (1862): 12-37.

Editorial Information

Identifier	984.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	290
Printed page	285
Database ID	2740

Original Transcription

984. RUMBALL, James Quilter (1795-1872), MRCS 1817, LSA 1822;
son of John Rumball, surgeon of Abington; itinerant phrenologist;
claimed to have studied under H. MONRO at Bethlehem Asylum and
to have been a pupil of SPURZHEIM, c1820; wrote several med works
of dubious value and, in 1844, on the need for the Br Assn to


recognize phrenology; proprietor of the unlicensed Harpenden Hall
Asylum for the Insane at St Albans, Herts; established a phrenology
shop at 3 King William St, The Strand, London, 1840, to compete
with DONOVAN'S establishment; M PHREN ASSN; proposed a new Br
Phren Soc and magazine in Jan 1844--neither of which appears to
have materialized; lectured on phrenology in London and in the
provinces, 1830s and 1840s; to large audiences at the Adelaide Gallery, 1843; conducted a strenuous campaign against materialism and
mesmerism, 1843, pursuing VERNON around England, and debating
with HICKS at Gloucester, 1845; proposed (and may have actually
produced) The Anti-Mesmerist, c1850; debated with BRINDLEY in
Worcester, 1839-40, and in Liverpool, 1842; read Herbert SPENCER'S
head. (MEB)