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BUSHNAN, John Stevenson (1808?-84)

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Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Edin 1830 and Heidelberg; FRCP Edin; sen phys, Metropolitan Free Hosp and resident proprietor of Loverstock House Asylum, near Salisbury; wrote on homoeopathy and hydropathy; ed Med Times & Gaz, 1849-52, and author of "What is Psychology?" J MENTAL SCI, 6 (1859): 39-49. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

177.1 — 177.1 "Nature of Thought--Phrenology," in his The Philosophy of Instinct and Reason. Edin: A & C Black, 1837: 240-65. (A thoughtful consideration rejecting only craniology and its popularizers; reviewed, PHREN J, 11 [1838]: 49-56.)
177.2 — 177.2 "Phrenology and Mesmerism," in his Miss Martineau and Her Master, London: John Churchill, 1851: 116-38. (The "master," H. G. ATKINSON, is blamed for poisoning Harriet MARTINEAU'S mind with phreno-mesmerism.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	177.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	50
Printed page	45
Database ID	434

Original Transcription

177. BUSHNAN, John Stevenson (1808?-84), MD Edin 1830 and
Heidelberg; FRCP Edin; sen phys, Metropolitan Free Hosp and resident proprietor of Loverstock House Asylum, near Salisbury; wrote
on homoeopathy and hydropathy; ed Med Times & Gaz, 1849-52, and
author of "What is Psychology?" J MENTAL SCI, 6 (1859): 39-49. (DNB)