Antedating: bumpology, 1826 (and 1831)

[George Thompson]

And here's a related term not in HDAS nor OED:

        Bumpnoodleists may enjoy their opinions upon the irregular protuberances in the neighbourhood of the pericranium. . . .
        [Frederick Saunders]  Life in New-York, 1837, p. 8

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008 9:41 am
Subject: Antedating: bumpology, 1826 (and 1831)
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU


> George Cruikshank
> Feb. 24, 1826
> London: G. Humphrey
> etching, color.
>
> [title:]  Bumpology
>
> OED3:  1834-
>
> An image is on-line at the National Library of Medicine, "Images from
> the History of Medicine".  The text is (as best I can read off my
> computer screen):
>
> Pores o'er the Cranial map with learned eyes,
> Each rising hill and bumpy knoll descries,
> Here secret fires and there deep mines of sense
> His touch detects beneath each prominence.
>
> While searching for this, I also came across the following, which
> shows up on Google:
>
> Egerton Smith
> The Melange, a Variety of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse,
> comprising the Elysium of Animals
> Liverpool, 1831
>
> "Bumpology" on pages 115 (title), 118, and 120.
>
> Joel
>
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