med practitioner and educationalist of Worcester; LRCP, MRCS 1826; author of works on cholera, thunderstorms and education; "zealous in the cause of science"; fellow ETHNOL SOC; M LONDON PHREN SOC from Mar 1825; M PHREN ASSN; delivered popular lectures on phrenology in the Worcester Athenaeum and Guildhall, 1839 and 1834-6. (Obit: Med Dir, 1856: 753.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
1134.1
— 1134.1 An Introductory Lecture on the Anatomy and Functions of the Nervous System of Man and the Inferior Animals, delivered extempore before the Members of the Literary and Scientific Institution, Worcester, on Monday, May 12th, 1834, by E. A. Turley. (Published at the request of the Committee) from the shorthand notes of Mr. William Pare. (Unlocated pamphlet; reviewed and quoted in ANALYST 1 [Aug 1834]: 55-6.)
1134.2
— 1134.2 "Lecture on the Nervous System of Man and the Inferior Animals: Worcester Literary and Scientific Institution," ANALYST, 3 (Jan 1836): 312-17. (Wholly phrenological; a continuation of the above lecture of 1834.)
1134.3
— 1134.3 First Lines of Education: A Course delivered to the Literary and Scientific Institution, Worcester, in the Spring Session of 1839. Worcester: Printed, 1839. Pp. 81. (Object: "to demonstrate ... how the physiology of the brain, or phrenology... is applicable to the successful training of body and mind, called education.") of Four Lectures,
Editorial Information
Identifier
1134.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
333
Printed page
328
Database ID
3138
Original Transcription
1134. TURLEY, Edward Astbury (1800-1855), med practitioner and
educationalist of Worcester; LRCP, MRCS 1826; author of works on
cholera, thunderstorms and education; "zealous in the cause of
science"; fellow ETHNOL SOC; M LONDON PHREN SOC from Mar
1825; M PHREN ASSN; delivered popular lectures on phrenology in
the Worcester Athenaeum and Guildhall, 1839 and 1834-6. (Obit:
Med Dir, 1856: 753.)