Anthropological Society of London (phrenology)
| John Epps | |
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Dr John Epps
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| Born |
15 February 1805 Sevenoaks |
| Died | 12 February 1869 |
| Cause of death | 'attack of paralysis, aggravated by acute asthma, from cold' |
| Resting place | Kensal Green Cemetery |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | Britain |
| Education | Dissenting academy and Mill Hill School; medical apprenticeship; degree at Edinburgh |
| Occupation | Lecturer and unlicensed medical practitioner |
| Known for | Political activist and religious dissident |
| Title | Dr |
| Parent(s) | John Epps |
Dr John Epps (1805–1869) was an English physician, phrenologist and homeopath. He was also a political activist, known as a champion of radical causes on which he preached, lectured and wrote in periodicals.
Epps, the eldest son of John Epps (see Epps family), was born into a Calvinist family in Sevenoaks, Kent in 1805. George Napoleon Epps was his half-brother.
Epps became disillusioned with the religious atmosphere of his childhood. After education at a dissenting academy and then Mill Hill School (near Hendon), he served an apprenticeship to an apothecary of the name of Dury or Durie.
In 1824, at the age of 18, Epps went to Edinburgh to study medicine, and in 1827 graduated at the age of 21. He conceived of medicine as 'a tool of liberation for the poor and lower classes'.
After graduating Epps moved back to London where he began to practice, eventually settling in Great Russell Street. In 1831 he married. He became Medical Director of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, on the death of John Walker. Epps had a Scottish degree, but no license from the Royal College of Physicians.
Epps also lectured on chemistry, botany, and materia medica, in London locations. Initially this was at the Aldersgate Medical School, and Windmill Street; and later at Westminster at the Hunterian School of Medicine. There was briefly (1830–31) a medical school in Brewer Street, set up by William Birmingham Costello, Epps and Michael Ryan. Epps and Ryan then joined George Darby Dermott in giving lectures at the Western Dispensary in Gerrard Street; James Fernandez Clarke, in his memoirs, described Epps lecturing there as well-read and sympathetic but not deeply versed in practical chemistry, or botany. Epps lectured publicly and extensively for the rest of his life, particularly on phrenology and homoeopathy, in London and elsewhere. When his health failed he continued to lecture in his own home.
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