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SYMES, Edmond Sheppard

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Editorial Description

surgeon and accoucher of Berkeley Sq, London; MRCS 1832; surgeon to St George's Infirmary; pupil and devotee of ELLIOTSON; for 11 years he was the sec of the LONDON PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN; on council of London Mesmeric Infirmary; in 1851 he sought subscribers for a two volume translation of GALL'S Physiology of the Brain which he had completed (see note in ZOIST, 9 [1851]: 233) but needed 2 guineas a copy to make it worthwhile to publish; no publication appeared.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

• 1091.1 — 1091.1 [Abstract of Address to LONDON PHREN SOC, 1 May 1844, containing strictures on the article by J. Cowles PRIC- HARD published in the Prov Med & Surg J and copied into the PHREN J] ZOIST, 2 (Jan 1845): 448-9.

Editorial Information

1091. SYMES, Edmond Sheppard, surgeon and accoucher of Berkeley
Sq, London; MRCS 1832; surgeon to St George's Infirmary; pupil and


devotee of ELLIOTSON; for 11 years he was the sec of the LONDON
PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN; on council of London Mesmeric Infirmary; in 1851 he sought subscribers for a two volume translation of
GALL'S Physiology of the Brain which he had completed (see note
in ZOIST, 9 [1851]: 233) but needed 2 guineas a copy to make it
worthwhile to publish; no publication appeared.