Edin and Gottingen; phys to the British Embassy in Paris; author of Homoeopathy Examined (1836); sole executor of the will of James ROBERTON and responsible for the legacy of £15,000 not turning up at the EDIN PHREN SOC.
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
1149.1
— 1149.1 Changes Produced in the Nervous System by Civilization, Considered According to the Evidence of Physiology and the Philosophy of History. London and Paris: S. Highley, 1837. Pp. 143. (Informed by, but not explicitly, phrenological.) 2nd edn, enlarged, 1839.
1149.2
— 1149.2 "Notes on the Development indicated by the Antique Busts in the Collections of Naples, Rome, and Florence," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 61-3, 265-7; vol 13 (1840): 347-9.
1149.3
— 1149.3 Subject and Object; as Connected with Our Double Brain, and A New Theory of Causation. London: Longmans & Co, 1870. Pp. 86. (Believes that the bits that are yet obscure in GALL'S theory will be cleared up in the future.)
Editorial Information
Identifier
1149.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
337
Printed page
332
Database ID
3175
Original Transcription
1149. VERITY, Robert, MD Edin and Gottingen; phys to the British
Embassy in Paris; author of Homoeopathy Examined (1836); sole executor of the will of James ROBERTON and responsible for the legacy
of £15,000 not turning up at the EDIN PHREN SOC.