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UWINS, David (?1780-1837)

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Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Edin 1803; survived by writing for various journals, eventually becoming phys to several London dispensaries and to the Peckhan Lunatic Asylum, 1828; said by his colleagues to be a man "of vast erudition and experience"; he claimed to have been "bitten" by phrenology after reading CHENEVIX'S account of 1828, having written hostilely of it in the ECLECTIC REV in 1815; thereafter he encouraged others to see the anti-phrenologists as committed merely to "particular creeds and professions"; converted to homoeopathy in the mid-1830s and wrote Homoeopathy and Allopathy (1836); also wrote on cholera. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1145.1 — 1145.1 [Review of] Spurzheim's Physiognomical System," ECLECTIC REV, NS 3 (Apr & May 1815): 321-35, 459-69. (Hostile; authorship admitted in next entry.)
1145.2 — 1145.2 "Phrenology," London Encyclopaedia, vol 17 (1829): 259-74. (Complimentary to the system; authorship admitted in Homoeopathy; reviewed PHREN J, 5 [1828/9]: 464-8.)
1145.3 — 1145.3 "Phrenology," NEW MON MAG, 34 (May 1832): 445- 55. (Seen as a superior form of metaphysics.)
1145.4 — 1145.4 "Nosology, Phrenology, and Nomenclature," in his A Treatise on those Disorders of the Brain and Nervous System, Which are Usually Considered and Called Mental, London: Renshaw & Rush, 1833: 1-24.

Editorial Information

Identifier	1145.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	336
Printed page	331
Database ID	3161

Original Transcription

1145. UWINS, David (?1780-1837), MD Edin 1803; survived by writing for various journals, eventually becoming phys to several London
dispensaries and to the Peckhan Lunatic Asylum, 1828; said by his
colleagues to be a man "of vast erudition and experience"; he claimed
to have been "bitten" by phrenology after reading CHENEVIX'S account of 1828, having written hostilely of it in the ECLECTIC REV
in 1815; thereafter he encouraged others to see the anti-phrenologists as committed merely to "particular creeds and professions";
converted to homoeopathy in the mid-1830s and wrote Homoeopathy
and Allopathy (1836); also wrote on cholera. (DNB)