People’s Phrenological Journal and Compendium of Mental and Moral Science.
Know Thyself
1843--1844
Weekly
London, England.
Language: English.
Editor: W. John Vernon, then Luke Burke.
Publisher: George Berger.
1/1, 1843-1844.
2d., 8-12 pp.

This was a standard phrenological journal of the period with a strong admixture of magnetism and magnetic healing--a controversial combination at the time. It was intended as a "humble attempt to popularize what has hitherto been considered as an abstract study." The journal was associated with the Phrenological Societies of London and Exeter and contained an extensive exchange of correspondence on the subjects. The established Phrenological Journal welcomed this new journal with faint praise, intimating that it was largely plagiarized: "A large portion of its contents has been reprinted from our own Journal; and though we make the editor very welcome to what he has taken, we must hint that it is his duty to be scrupulous in acknowledging whence his materials are derived."