Comments on some of the illustrations derived by Phrenology from Comparative Anatomy, 1823 1823

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Comments on some of the illustrations derived by Phrenology from Comparative Anatomy, 1823 1823

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This collection consists of a rough and finished draft of Coates' lecture, which was delivered before the Phrenological Society of Philadelphia. In it he included a review of Boston professor John C. Warren's work on the nervous system.

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Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856

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John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist, was born in Boston in 1778, the son of Harvard physician John Warren and Abigail (Collins) Warren. He graduated from Harvard College in 1797 and began the study of medicine with his father. From 1799 to 1802 he studied medicine in Paris and London. When he returned, he went into practice with his father. In 1809, Warren became adjunct professor in anatomy and surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1815 succeeded his father as professor, a position h...

Coates, Benjamin

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Philadelphia physician Benjamin Horner Coates served as the attendant physician and clinical lecturer at Pennsylvania Hospital (1828-1841). From the guide to the Comments on some of the illustrations derived by Phrenology from Comparative Anatomy, 1823, 1823, (American Philosophical Society) ...