John Thurnam

John Thurnam MD, FSA, FRCP
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Born	1810
Died	1873
Residence	Devizes - Wilts County Lunatic Asylum
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership ESL Associate ASL, AI Ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1870.05.31 resigned ASL 1873 deceased elected_ESL 1852.07.09 elected_AI 1852 elected_ASL 1863 societies Society of Antiquaries Royal College of Surgeons Royal College of Physicians Medico-Psychological Association Anthropological Society of Paris

Notes

Office Notes

ESL
Associate 1852; proposed for Council May 59; retiring member May 60; retires from Council May 66

ASL
1863.06.23 invited to accept post of Vice President

House Notes

A5 mentioned in letter by J. Barnard Davis [265]
Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris
1870.05.31 the conditional resignation of Dr John Thurnam was read and accepted
1873.10.28 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

John Thurnam (28 December 1810 – 24 September 1873) was an English psychiatrist, archaeologist, and ethnologist. He was Medical Superintendent of The Retreat, the Quaker psychiatric hospital near York. In 1848 he reported two maternal first cousins with an unusual condition affecting the skin, hair and teeth (an ectodermal dysplasia); he had performed an examination post mortem on one of the two men, including relevant histopathology.
He was twice elected president of the Medico-Psychological Association.

Publications

External Publications

Prospectus of Crania Britannica laid on the table 12 Aug 1852

‘Observations and Essays on the Statistics of Insanity, and on Establishments for the Insane

House Publications

ESL: On some skulls and other bones found in a tumulus near York. Read at evening meeting 11 May 1848
Description of an ancient cemetery at Lamel Hill near York. Read 7 June 1848
Observations on crania found in ancient British burial places. Read 19 Mar 1851. Awaiting decision on printing apr 1851

ASL: on crania of early Britons Read 19 a[r 1864
on further researches &c