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SMITH, "Professor

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" practical consulting phrenologist of London in the 1830s; advertised: "Phrenological Predictions.--Persons meditating any important change in their pursuits, parents, before deciding on a business or profession for their children, should consult this science, as their fortunes depend on the choice harmonising with its predictions. Terms, five shillings and upwards. The responses of the science, as far as will conduce to the future welfare of youth, are given for this sum. Professor Smith, No. 90. Strand, opposite Southampton Street (inner private door)." in PHREN J, 11 [1837/8]: 342.) (Quoted


Editorial Information

Identifier 1037.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 308
Printed page 303
Database ID 2910

Original Transcription
1037. SMITH, "Professor," practical consulting phrenologist of London in the 1830s; advertised: "Phrenological Predictions.--Persons
meditating any important change in their pursuits, parents, before
deciding on a business or profession for their children, should consult this science, as their fortunes depend on the choice harmonising with its predictions. Terms, five shillings and upwards. The
responses of the science, as far as will conduce to the future welfare of youth, are given for this sum. Professor Smith, No.
90. Strand, opposite Southampton Street (inner private door)."
in PHREN J, 11 [1837/8]: 342.)
(Quoted