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    BUCHANAN, JOSEPH RODES. Manual of Psychometry: the Dawn of a New Civilization. [Second Edition.]. Boston: Press of the Roxbury Advocate, 1885. 8vo. [8], 212, 194, 92, [2] pp. Frontis. Orig. cloth. $125.00

     

    Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814-99), was the son of Joseph Buchanan, author of the 1812 frontier-published work of materialistic philosophy, The Philosophy of Human Nature. An infant prodigy, versed in astronomy and geometry at age six, J.R. Buchanan studied law at age 12. While at the University of Louisville, he "laid the foundations for two new so-called sciences which he later elaborated, 'psychometry' and 'sarcognomy'..." --DAB. "It is worth noting that Buchanan coined the phrase 'psychological chemistry' to designate the border territory which explains the connection between the mind and matter." --Roback, History of American Psychology. His medical theories may have influenced the later career of the notorious Albert Abrams.  See Roback, p. 390, noting that, ahead of his time, Buchanan championed a theory of electrical properties of the brain.

 

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