[Ads-l] antedating "psychometry"

[Bill Mullins]

1844 Louisville Daily Courier Aug 30 2/4

The new physiological system; explanation of the relations of the mind to the brain
and the brain to the body; the double brain and the double body; the senses as
located in the brain; explanation of the formation of heat, of breathing, of
digestion, of the secretions, of life and death, and the laws of health and
disease; the laws of diet; the philosophy of colors; the basis of physiognomy;
illustrations of psychometry; the microcosm in man; the impressible constitution;
the improvement of medical science; the relief of pain and cure of disease by
manual operations, &c.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/118730290/?match=1&terms=psychometry

This is an advertisement of a lecture to be given by J. Rhodes Buchanan, who is often said to have coined "psychometry" in 1842.

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