Monday, November 23, 2009

Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1840, ...

Dr. J.R. Buchanan discovers, that of a class of 130, 43 of them experience the effects of substances (medicines, heavy metals, sugar, salt, pepper, acids) while holding an envelope in their hands containing same. The effects are the same as if they digested or administered them by normal means. Certain people were acutely sensitive and could distinguish and name the various substances. ("The Mental Cure", Warren Felt Evans, 1869) 



Joseph Rodes Buchanan ( 1814 – 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).

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