surgeon and alienist; LRCS 1826, MD Heidelberg; FRSE 1861; student pres Roy Med Soc Edin, Roy Physical, and Plinian societies; med supt Montrose Royal Asylum, 1834-8 and of Crichton Royal Inst, 1838-57 (turning it into one of the most active research centers in Europe); med commissioner in lunacy for Scotland, 1857-70; author of Sisterhoods in Asylums (1866), Endemic Degeneration (1862), Epileptics (1865): colleague and friend of Dr. Isaac Ray, the American alienist; pres Medico-Psychological Assn, 1866; became acquainted with phrenology after attending G. COMBE'S lectures in the 1820s; M EDIN PHREN SOC from 1824, and of PHREN ASSN, 1840; on council of EDIN ETHI- CAL SOC FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PHREN; intimate of COMBE family and supplied G. COMBE and G. MACKENZIE with testimonials, 1836; highly popular as a lecturer (attracting 1,000 to his lectures in Dumfermline, 1838); attended the last meeting of EDIN PHREN SOC in Dec 1870. (MEB)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
159.1
— 159.1 "On Morbid Manifestations of the Organ of Language, as Connected with Insanity," PHREN J, 8 (1832/4): 250-60, 308-16, 414-23.
159.2
— 159.2 "Derangements of the Faculty of Language from Injury to the Anterior Lobe of the Cerebrum (condensed from the Phrenological Journal, June 1833)," LANCET, 8 June 1833: 330-3.
159.3
— 159.3 "Remarks on Two Cases of Cerebral Disease, published by Dr. Moir in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal and imagined to be subversive of the conclusions of phrenologists as to the seat of the organ of language," PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 162-4.
159.4
— 159.4 Observations on Religious Fanaticism; illustrated by a comparison of the belief and conduct of noted religious enthusiasts with those of patients in the Montrose Lunatic Asylum. Edin: Balfour, 1835. Pp. 16. (Contains phrenological delineations of patients. Reprinted with additions in PHREN J, 9 [1834/6] 289-302, 532-45, 577-603.)
159.6
— 159.6 What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be: Five Lectures Delivered Before the Managers of the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum. Edin: A & C Black, 1837. Pp. 240. (Reviewed, PHREN J, 10 [1836/7]: 687-97.)
159.7
— 159.7 "Case Illustrating the Importance of Engaging the Insane in Regular Mental and Bodily Employment," PHREN J, 11 (1838): 155-8. (Quoted from the Report of the Director of the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary and Dispensary for the year ending June 1, 1837.)
159.8
— 159.8 "Affection of the Sentiment of Hope in Consequence of an Injury of the Brain," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 157-9.
159.9
— 159.9 "Cases of Disease of the Organs of Perception," PHREN J, 14 (1841): 77-9.
159.10
— 159.10 "Some Notes Upon the Hereditary Tendency to Mental Disease. Read before the Dumfries Phrenological Society," PHREN J, 14 (1841): 221-31, 311-20.
159.11
— 159.11 "On the Establishment of an Asylum for Patients Recovered After Attempts at Suicide," PHREN J, 15 (1842): 5. (Reprinted, PEOPLE'S PHREN J, 18 Feb 1843: 28-9.) 123-
159.12
— 159.12 "Case of Double or Diseased Consciousness," PHREN J, 20 (1847): 268-71. Phrenology in the British Isles.
Editorial Information
Identifier
159.
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Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
45
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40
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393
Original Transcription
159. BROWNE, William Alexander Francis (1805-85), surgeon and
alienist; LRCS 1826, MD Heidelberg; FRSE 1861; student pres Roy
Med Soc Edin, Roy Physical, and Plinian societies; med supt Montrose
Royal Asylum, 1834-8 and of Crichton Royal Inst, 1838-57 (turning
it into one of the most active research centers in Europe); med commissioner in lunacy for Scotland, 1857-70; author of Sisterhoods in
Asylums (1866), Endemic Degeneration (1862), Epileptics (1865):
colleague and friend of Dr. Isaac Ray, the American alienist; pres
Medico-Psychological Assn, 1866; became acquainted with phrenology
after attending G. COMBE'S lectures in the 1820s; M EDIN PHREN
SOC from 1824, and of PHREN ASSN, 1840; on council of EDIN ETHI-
CAL SOC FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PHREN; intimate
of COMBE family and supplied G. COMBE and G. MACKENZIE with
testimonials, 1836; highly popular as a lecturer (attracting 1,000 to
his lectures in Dumfermline, 1838); attended the last meeting of EDIN
PHREN SOC in Dec 1870. (MEB)