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BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN [New Series, Vol. III, No.3, April, 1889]
Published by Buchanan's Journal of Man, Boston, 1889
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp. 113-169 + 2p. ad for Hotel Flower. Stapled booklet in green wrappers printed in black, Wrappers somewhat soiled and faded with a few chips around the edges, textblock loose from the wrappers but all there, rust on the staples, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. ?As the Journal of Man is designed to occupy the highest realm of knowledge attainable by man it cannot be a magazine for the millions who have no aspiration towards such knowledge. Its pages will not be devoted to the elementary lessons that such persons need to attract them to the science of the soul and the brain, and the philosophy of reform.? (from ?An Introduction to the Journal of Man? in Vol 1., no. 1.) Note that this Introduction, which listed 10 aspects of knowledge with which readers were presumed already to be acquainted, only appears in its entirety on the cover/title page and verso of Vol. 1, no. 1. In subsequent issues (including Vol. 3, no. 3) the expansion of the table of contents required that only the verso of this ?Introduction? was printed, starting with the third of the 10 aspects of knowledge. In other words, the issue offered here is complete as published. Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814-1899) was an American physician and professor of physiology at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky. He coined the term psychometry, to denote a therapeutic science of the relationship between body and brain. He advanced the ideas that the whole body is expressive; that the entire form is an embodiment of character; that each part of the evolving surface not only possesses a physiological characteristic but also psychological powers; and that each portion of this cutaneous surface exercises, through the nervous system, a direct action upon some particular part of the brain. Buchanan believed that understanding these relationships could have great value in the treatment of disease. Among the articles in this issue are ?The Hypnotic Treatment of Diseases and Vice,? ?The Profundities of Theosophy and the Shallowness of Hinduism,? ?Living without Eating --Josephine Marie Bedard? and "Progress of Women in Dentistry.".
