born Portsmouth; LSA 1833; med officer on a merchant vessel, 1834-5; MRCP 1859; assistant med officer under John CONOLLY at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum to 1844, then appointed med supt of a new asylum in Ceylon; returned to London in 1850 to become med supt of the female department at Colney Hatch Asylum; proprietor Norwoods private asylum at Winterbourne, near Bristol, 1852-75; MD St Andrews, 1863; pres Bath-Bristol branch of the BMA, 1859; pres Bristol Medico-Chir Soc, 1882-3; author of Contributions to Mental Pathology (1850), New Views of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind (1853); regarded by LIT GAZ (13 Aug 1842) as "one of the most celebrated phrenologists of the day"; acted as the referee for J. BARBER in his debate with BRIND- LEY in Bristol in 1842; practiced phreno-mesmerism on the insane. (MEB; Hunter & Macalpine, p. 934; Davey, "Life and its Lessons," BMJ, 1 Mar 1884; 420.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
282.1
— 282.1 "The Responsibility of Criminals. To editor," LANCET, 19 Mar 1842; 850-2 Cerebral Conformation. (Reply to DICK)
282.2
— 282.2 "Sanity, Insanity, and Phrenology. 30 Apr 1842: 158-60. (Further response to DICK.) To editor," LANCET,
282.3
— 282.3 "Phrenology and Insanity. (Being a paper read to the Phrenological Association at its 6th and last sitting, June 25, 1842)," Med Times, 6 (6 Aug 1842): 291-3; and (13 Aug): 310-11.
282.4
— 282.4 "Insanity in Connection with Phrenology--Phrenological Association 1842, London," PHREN J, 15 (1842): 336-40.
282.5
— 282.5 Medico-Legal Reflections on the Trial of Daniel M'Naughton, for the Murder of Mr. Drummond; with Remarks on the Different Forms of Insanity, and the Irresponsibility of the Insane. With an Appendix. London: Bailliere, 1843. Pp. 54. (Wholly phrenological; reviewed, ZOIST, 1 [Jan 1844]: 397- 405.)
282.6
— 282.6 111-19. "On the Pathology of Insanity," ZOIST, 1 (July 1843):
282.7
— 282.7 [On Criminal Insanity, to 6th session of PHREN ASSN, 5 July, 1843], ZOIST, 1 (Oct 1843): 253-62.
282.8
— 282.8 "The Character of the Cingalese phrenologically considered. Read before the Ceylon Branch of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain, in August 1845 [abridged from Ceylon Overland Observer 15 Apr 1846]," PHREN J, 20 (1847): 147-56.
282.9
— 282.9 On the Nature, and Proximate Cause, of Insanity. London: J. Churchill, 1853. Pp. 77. (Reviewed, J PSYCH MED, 6 [Oct 1853]: 563-6--GALL worth praising, but not phrenology.)
282.10
— 282.10 The Ganglionic Nervous System; its Structure, Functions and Diseases. London: J. Churchill, 1858. Pp. 309. (Possibly his last phrenological work relying heavily on GALL, ELLIOTSON, A. COMBE; reviewed, J PSYCH MED, 12 (Jan 1859): 141-6.)
282.11
— 282.11 "G. Combe and His Writings. A Lecture delivered at Bristol." J MENTAL SCI, 10 (July 1864): 168-94.
282.12
— 282.12 "On the Functions of the Cerebellum--letter to editor of Lancet," J MENTAL SCI, 12 (Oct 1866): 409-10. (Defending GALL'S observations against those of prof Richard Owen.)
282.13
— 282.13 "The Localization of the Functions of the Brain," J PSYCH MED, 2 (Oct 1876): 252-62. (Paper read before the Bath-Bristol branch of the BMA, 1874. Sees new credibility for phrenology as a result of the work of FERRIER et al.)
282.14
— 282.14 "Notes on the Physiological Pathology of the Brain," J PSYCH MED, 5 (Oct 1879): 172-204. (Phrenology now "brought to the test of experience and proven.")
Editorial Information
Identifier
282.
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Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
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Original Transcription
282. DAVEY, James George (1813-95), born Portsmouth; LSA 1833;
med officer on a merchant vessel, 1834-5; MRCP 1859; assistant med
officer under John CONOLLY at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum to 1844,
then appointed med supt of a new asylum in Ceylon; returned to
London in 1850 to become med supt of the female department at Colney
Hatch Asylum; proprietor Norwoods private asylum at Winterbourne,
near Bristol, 1852-75; MD St Andrews, 1863; pres Bath-Bristol
branch of the BMA, 1859; pres Bristol Medico-Chir Soc, 1882-3;
author of Contributions to Mental Pathology (1850), New Views of
Insanity: The Duality of the Mind (1853); regarded by LIT GAZ
(13 Aug 1842) as "one of the most celebrated phrenologists of the
day"; acted as the referee for J. BARBER in his debate with BRIND-
LEY in Bristol in 1842; practiced phreno-mesmerism on the insane.
(MEB; Hunter & Macalpine, p. 934; Davey, "Life and its Lessons,"
BMJ, 1 Mar 1884; 420.)