James Cowles Prichard
English physician and anthropologist (1786–1848) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Cowles Prichard FRS (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was a British physician 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".[1]