George Moore (physician)

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Dr. George Moore MD (1803–1880) was a physician and British Israelite.[1]

Career

After attending Abernethy's lectures and surgical practice at

Dupuytren
's practice. In 1829, he became M.R.C.S. England, in 1830 L.S.A., in 1841 M.D. St. Andrews, in 1843 ext. L.R.C.P., and in 1859 M.R.C.P. [2]

He settled first at Camberwell, near London, where he practiced successfully for eight years. In March 1835, he obtained the

puerperal fever, which was favourably reviewed in the British and Foreign Medical Review (ii. 481). In 1838, his health broke down, and he moved to Hastings, where he remained for ten years. During part of this time he was physician to the Hastings Dispensary, with his friend Dr. James Mackness as a colleague. [2]

He published successful books on homely philosophy and quasi-psychology, becoming the

Dr Spock of Victorian England by publishing in 1872 The training of young children on Christian and natural principles, which covered everything from nursery health to training for school and marriage.[3]

British Israelism

After reading

Israelite
, an idiosyncratic view not held by many other British Israelites at the time.

Newton Stone

Main article: Newton Stone

Moore worked on attempting to decipher the Newton Stone. In Ancient Pillar Stones of Scotland, their Significance and Bearing on Ethnology (1865) Moore proposed that the "unknown script" on the Newton Stone was written in

Hebrew-Bactrian by an ancient "Hebrew Buddhist missionary to Scotland".[4]

Moore's decipherment was not popular with other scholars at the time who considered the unknown script to be Latin or Old Irish, although some had proposed Phoenician.

Works

The Minstrel's Tale, and other Poems (1826)

Medicine & psychology

The power of the soul over the body, considered in relation to health and morals (1847)
Man and his motives (1848)
Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood (1850)
The use of the body in relation to the mind (1852)
The first man and his place in creation (1866)
The training of young children on Christian and natural principles (1872)

British Israelism

The lost tribes and the Saxons of the east and of the west with new views of Buddhism, and translations of rock-records in India (1861)

Newton Stone

Ancient pillar stones of Scotland, their significance and bearing on ethnology (1865)

References

  1. ^ "Some Historical Background to the British".
  2. ^ a b Greenhill 1894.
  3. ISBN 0297775766
    .
  4. ^ Ancient pillar stones of Scotland; their significance and bearing on ethnology (1865)
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1894). "Moore, George (1803-1880)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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