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CARSON, James Crawford Ledlie (1815-1886)

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Born: 1815

Died: 1886

Editorial Description

Irish; MD Glasgow, 1837; med advisor to over 30 insurance companies; wrote against capital punishment and the Plymouth Brethren; evangelical Christian phrenologist; did delineations; gave three courses of lectures on phrenology at Coleraine Mechanics' Inst 1842, 1850, and course in Dublin, 1851. (MEB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

198.1 — 198.1 "Phrenology, and the Popular Encyclopaedia," PHREN ALMANAC & PSYCH ANN, 4 (1845): 34-42. (Attacks the Encyclopaedia's antiphrenology.)
198.2 — 198.2 "Phrenology--to editor," Med Times & Gaz, 1 (5 Jan 1861): 27. (Replying to the attack on phrenology in the Gaz on 15 Dec 1860: 584-5.) UNIVEDINBU
198.3 — 198.3 The Fundamental Principles of Phrenology are the only Principles Capable of being Reconciled with the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul. London: Houlston & Wright, 1868. Pp. 470.

Editorial Information

Identifier	198.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	56
Printed page	51
Database ID	491

Original Transcription

198. CARSON, James Crawford Ledlie (1815-86), Irish; MD Glasgow,
1837; med advisor to over 30 insurance companies; wrote against
capital punishment and the Plymouth Brethren; evangelical Christian
phrenologist; did delineations; gave three courses of lectures on
phrenology at Coleraine Mechanics' Inst 1842, 1850, and course in
Dublin, 1851. (MEB)