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CLARKE, Henry (d. 1841)

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Died: 1841

Postnominals: MRCS

Editorial Description

; said to be a zealous phrenologist who "greatly assisted in diffusing a knowledge of the real nature of the system of Gall and Spurzheim among influential and scientific men in the metropolis"; founded the private phren soc in London to which J. CLARK and H. H. HOLM belonged; developed a process of drying the brain in toto; M PHREN ASSN. (Obit: PHREN J, 15 [1842]: 89-90.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	220.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	62
Printed page	57
Database ID	543

Original Transcription

220. CLARKE, Henry (d. 1841), MRCS; said to be a zealous phrenologist who "greatly assisted in diffusing a knowledge of the real
nature of the system of Gall and Spurzheim among influential and
scientific men in the metropolis"; founded the private phren soc in
London to which J. CLARK and H. H. HOLM belonged; developed a
process of drying the brain in toto; M PHREN ASSN. (Obit: PHREN
J, 15 [1842]: 89-90.)