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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

NEWHAM, William (1790 – 1865)

1790 – 1865

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1830

#12104

Essay on superstition; being an inquiry into the effects of physical influence on the mind, in the production of dreams, visions, ghosts, and other supernatural appearances.

NEWHAM, William (1790 – 1865)

In this conceptual anticipation of later ideas in psychopharmacology Newnham argued that dreams, visions, apparitions and other apparently spiritual manifestations, whether good or bad, arose from physiological rather…