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James Cowles Prichard

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English physician and anthropologist

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James Cowles Prichard was a British medical doctor and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. From 1845, Prichard served as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy.

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Fellow of the Ethnological Society of London

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James Cowles Prichard was a British medical doctor and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. From 1845, Prichard served as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy. He also introduced the term "senile dementia".

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Lived 1786 to 1848 · aged 62
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