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BRIGHAM, Amariah (1799-1849)

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Born: 1799

Died: 1849

Editorial Description

founder of the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Assn; supt Hartford Retreat (1837-8) and New York State Lunatic Asylum (1844); a leading madhouse reformer; travelled in Britain and France, 1828-9; a friend of SPURZHEIM, he was a warm supporter of phrenology, and though he wrote nothing specifically phrenological, the "fruits" of his phrenology were attacked by David Reese in Phrenology Known by its Fruits, being a brief review of Doctor Brigham's late work, entitled 'Observations on the influence of religion upon the health and physical welfare of mankind' (New York, 1836), and

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

128.1 — 128.1 Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation and Mental Excitement upon Health. With Notes by Robt. Macnish. Glasgow: John Reid & Co; Edin: Oliver & Boyd; and London: Whittaker & Co, 1836. Pp. 137. (Reviewed, PHREN J, 10 [1836/7]: 71-89.) 1st edn, Boston 1832; a 2nd edn, Glasgow, 1833 (pp. 130, without the notes by MACNISH) was reviewed, PHREN J, 9 [1834/5]: 424-35. (The article on "The Brain" in the Penny Mechanic, 31 Dec 1836: 70-1 was said to be 'From a very good and very cheap edition of Brigham on Mental Cultivation edited by Mr. Macnish.')

Editorial Information

Identifier	128.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	38
Printed page	33
Database ID	329

Original Transcription

128. BRIGHAM, Amariah (1799-1849), founder of the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Assn; supt Hartford
Retreat (1837-8) and New York State Lunatic Asylum (1844); a leading madhouse reformer; travelled in Britain and France, 1828-9; a
friend of SPURZHEIM, he was a warm supporter of phrenology, and
though he wrote nothing specifically phrenological, the "fruits" of
his phrenology were attacked by David Reese in Phrenology Known
by its Fruits, being a brief review of Doctor Brigham's late work,
entitled 'Observations on the influence of religion upon the health


and physical welfare of mankind' (New York, 1836), and