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WHITNEY, William Underwood (1813-1895)

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Born: 1813

Died: 1895

Editorial Description

LSA 1835, MRCSE 1835; trained at Bath and at St. Bartholomew's Hosp; GP of Westminster; after 1850, surgeon to the Westminster Female Refuge, med officer Western Dispensary, and surgeon to Emanuel Hosp; sec Westminster Mechanics' & Lit Inst, 1837, where he lectured on phrenology in the 1830s; lectured on "The Character of Nations--Phrenologically" at the Cadogan Inst, 1840.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1190.1 — 1190.1 "Cases of Spectral Illusion--Communicated in a Letter to the Editor," PHREN J, 11 (1838): 47.
1190.2 — 1190.2 "Anomalous Case of Nervous Affection, apparently induced by Sudden Excitement in the Organ of Cautiousness," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 65-6.
1190.3 — 1190.3 "Case of Morbid Excitement, referred to the Organ of Alimentiveness," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 379-80.

Editorial Information

Identifier	1190.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	349
Printed page	344
Database ID	3285

Original Transcription

1190. WHITNEY, William Underwood (1813-95), LSA 1835, MRCSE
1835; trained at Bath and at St. Bartholomew's Hosp; GP of Westminster; after 1850, surgeon to the Westminster Female Refuge, med
officer Western Dispensary, and surgeon to Emanuel Hosp; sec Westminster Mechanics' & Lit Inst, 1837, where he lectured on phrenology
in the 1830s; lectured on "The Character of Nations--Phrenologically"
at the Cadogan Inst, 1840.