hyoscine
hyoscine (scopolamine) (hy-ŏ-seen) n. an antimuscarinic drug that prevents muscle spasm. It is used in the treatment of gut spasm, to relax the uterus in labour, for preoperative medication, and for motion sickness. It is administered by mouth, injection, or skin patches. Trade names:
Buscopan,
Scopoderm TTS.
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Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth...important subject: the influence of phrenology on educational and other social ideas...ridiculed as "the science of bumps," phrenology has rarely attracted serious attention...
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Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth...important subject: the influence of phrenology on educational and other social ideas...ridiculed as "the science of bumps," phrenology has rarely attracted serious attention...
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Examining phrenology: this pseudoscience did have some influence on modern understanding of the brain.(IN RETROSPECT)
Magazine article from: Behavioral Healthcare; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...owner remarked, "That's the phrenology head," and told us that Orson...Lorenzo Fowler (major advocates of phrenology in the 1830s and 1840s) brought...and had done much to popularize phrenology in America in the early 1800s...
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Tomlinson, Stephen: Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-century Social Thought.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Tomlinson, Stephen Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth...evangelically preached that "the principles of Phrenology lie at the bottom of all sound mental philosophy." Since phrenology is generally dismissed today as a quack...
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"Corroborating his phrenology": The American phrenological journal, the great American crisis, and U.S. Grant
Magazine article from: Journal of American & Comparative Cultures; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...records in his memoirs, Forty Years in Phrenology, "a quiet gentleman in plain, citizen...perspicacious. Or was it? Surely, phrenology's many supporters would have found...profile confirmation of their faith in phrenology's ability to plumb depths of human...
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The Roots' 'Phrenology' takes on hip-hop ho-hum
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; The Roots' 'Phrenology' takes on hip-hop ho-hum By TOM...bendingly diverse fifth album, "Phrenology," out this week, has all kinds...of racism in his neighborhood. "Phrenology" -- the title refers to the Victorian...
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The New Phrenology
Magazine article from: Psychotherapy Networker; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...century American obsession with phrenology, the scientific "personality...of its day. A German import, phrenology was invented by Franz Joseph Gall...century Americans, notes Paul. Phrenology offered answers to people overwhelmed...
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Review: New CD "Phrenology" by The Roots
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/3/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Review: New CD Phrenology by The Roots Host: LYNN NEARY...deejay. And on their new disk, Phrenology, their collaborations with Jill...Soundbite of music) MOON: All of Phrenology is this adventurous. Even the...
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Isaac Ray's affair with phrenology
Magazine article from: Journal of Psychiatry & Law; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...psychiatry, the author explores the influence of phrenology on Ray's early thought. Phrenology, popular at the time of the founding of...psychiatric thought. Ray, a vocal advocate of phrenology during his days as a general practitioner...
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Skull-judgery PHRENOLOGY:
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 1/12/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...is the thesis behind the practice of phrenology, he says. Tucked into the basement...it was considered a serious science, phrenology was used by employers judging the character...Malatesta retorts. Then onto the phrenology exam where he points out sections of...
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Phrenology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Phrenology Austrian physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828...the human head as the basis of his doctrine on cranioscopy or phrenology. (The word phrenology stems from phrenos, or mind, and logos, meaning study...
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phrenology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
phrenology As the first biological science of mind, phrenology became an ubiquitous feature of nineteenth-century...Breaking down the distinction between mind and body, phrenology exemplified the shift from the speculative means of...
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Roots, The
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...years of silence, the Roots released Phrenology in 2002. A challenging work that contains...hardcore punk rock and Nigerian Afrobeat, Phrenology was eagerly embraced by the Roots...The Roots Come Alive (MCA, 1999); Phrenology (MCA, 2002). joe schloss
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Phreno-Mesmerism (or Phreno-Magnetismor Phrenopathy)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Phrenopathy) An application of the principles of mesmerism to phrenology, a means of discerning the nature of an individual's personality...examining the skull. Mesmerism (or animal magnetism ) and phrenology, both proposed as sciences in the mid-nineteenth century...
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Sectarian Medicine
Book article from: American Eras
...ninth edition (Columbus, Ohio: Jarvis Pike, 1833) Phrenology. Another alternative “scientific” theory that worked its way into popular culture was phrenology. Franz Joseph Gall of Vienna first proposed in the 1790s...
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