John Martyn Harlow: 'obscure country physician?'

If John Martyn Harlow is known at all in the neurosciences, it is because he was the physician who attended Phineas Gage and followed up his case. Although Harlow's brief but insightful accounts of the changes in Gage's personality are fairly well recognized, and his skill in treating Gage often acknowledged, Harlow himself is, for the most part, the shadowy figure caught by the self-depreciatory characterization of the subtitle of this paper. Although his contribution to the neurosciences was singular, literally and figuratively, he deserves a place in the history of the subject. Harlow's training in antiphlogistic therapy can be seen in his treatment of Gage and in his evaluation of its results. As a medical student, he was also exposed to phrenological doctrine, the influence of which can also be seen in his  appreciation and explanation of some aspects of Gage's behaviour.  Manuscript materials, newspaper reports, and other little known material are used here to evaluate Harlow's contributions to medicine and to the medical, political, and civic life of Cavendish, Woburn, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Marriage: its history and ceremonies; with a phrenological and physiological exposition. Of the functions and qualifications for happy marriages.

Mode of access: Internet.

Crania americana, or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America : to which is prefixed an essay on the variety of the human species ... /

"Appendix. Phrenological remarks on the relation between the natural talents and dispositions of nations and the developments of their brains. By George Combe, esq.": p. [296]-291.

The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects /

"The only authorized American ed."

Constitution of man considered in relation to external objects.

Constitution of man by George Combe; Essays on decision of character, etc. by John Foster; Philosophy of sleep & anatomy of drunkeness by Robert Macnish; Influence of literature upon society, etc. by Madame de Stael; A treatise on self-knowledge by John Mason.

The Phrenological journal and life illustrated.

Title from caption.

Qu'est-ce que la phrénologie ? ou, Essai sur la signification et la valeur des systèmes de psychologié en général, et de celui de Gall en particulier /

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Selections from the Phrenological journal : comprising forty articles in the first five volumes /

Includes index.

Lectures on moral philosophy : delivered before the Philosophical Association at Edinburgh, in the winter session of 1835-1836.

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Philosophical catechism of the natural laws of man.

Running title: Natural laws of man.

An examination of phrenoloy; in two lectures, delivered to the students of the Columbian college, District of Columbia, February, 1837.

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Examen de la phrénologie /

Examines doctrines of Gall, Spurzheim and Broussais.

Philosophical catechism of the natural laws of man /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]).

The constitution of man considered in relation to external objects.

Mode of access: Internet.

An examination of phrenoloy in two lectures, delivered to the students of the Columbian college, District of Columbia, February, 1837.

Mode of access: Internet.