John Thurnam
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1810 – 1873
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Who was John Thurnam?
John Thurnam 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; he had performed an examination post mortem on one of the two men, including relevant histopathology.
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- Born
- Dec 28, 1810
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- University of Aberdeen
- Died
- Sep 24, 1873
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on July 23, 2013
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