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BUCHANAN, Joseph Rhodes, physician and author: b. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 11, 1814; d. San Jos6, Cal., Dec. 26, 1899. He was the son of Dr. Joseph Buchanan (1785-1829), the Kentucky physician and inventor. He was first a printer, and later a school teacher. In 1842 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville, and from 1842-43 lectured on his discoveries, psychometry and sarcognomy, which he claimed demonstrated the brain's controlling action on the body. In 1845 Dr. Buchanan was one of the founders of the Electric Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was professor of physiology there for ten years. From 1851-56 he was dean of the institute, and in 1877 was made an instructor in the Electric Medical College in New York; and from 1883-92 conducted a college of therapeutics in Boston, where his own method of therapeutics was taught. In 1892 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., for the benefit of his health, and from there to San Jose\ Cal., where he died. Dr. Buchanan published: Buchanan's Journal of Man (1849-56); The New Education (1880); Therapeutic Sarcognomy (1884); Manual of Psychometry (1885); and Primitive Christianity (1898).

Source: The South in the Building of the Nation: Southern biography, ed. by W. L. Fleming, published by The Southern historical publication society, 1909, page 137

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Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814 in Frankfort, Kentucky – 1899) was an American physician and professor of physiology at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky. Buchanan proposed the terms Psychometry and Sarcognomy.

Buchanan came to prominence in the 1840s when mesmerism and spiritualism were popularized. He is given credit for coining the term "Psychometry" (soul-measuring) as the name of his own "science" whereby knowledge is acquired directly by the "psychometer" (the instrument of the soul). Having promoted his science from the 1840s onward in 1893 he released a comprehensive treatise entitled Manual of Psychometry : the Dawn of a New Civilization in which he predicted that Psychometry would eventually supersede and revolutionize every other field of science. Though himself a physician in lectures he denounced contemporary schools of medicine as "educated ignorance" while promoting Psychometry and appealing to Spiritualists. His work inspired other Spiritualism-based scientists such as Stephen Pearl Andrews.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rodes_Buchanan

Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814 in Frankfort, Kentucky – 1899) was an American physician and professor of physiology at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Covington, Kentucky. Buchanan proposed the terms Psychometry and Sarcognomy.

Buchanan came to prominence in the 1840s when mesmerism and spiritualism were popularized.[1] He is given credit for coining the term "Psychometry"[2] (soul-measuring) as the name of his own "science" whereby knowledge is acquired directly by the "psychometer" (the instrument of the soul).[3] Having promoted his science from the 1840s onward in 1893 he released a comprehensive treatise entitled Manual of Psychometry : the Dawn of a New Civilization in which he predicted that Psychometry would eventually supersede and revolutionize every other field of science.[4] Though himself a physician in lectures he denounced contemporary schools of medicine as "educated ignorance" while promoting Psychometry and appealing to Spiritualists.[1] His work inspired other Spiritualism-based scientists such as Stephen Pearl Andrews