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Nathan Allen was born on April 25, 1813 in Princeton, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Moses Allen and Mehitable Oliver, and brother of David Oliver Allen.
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Nathan Allen was born on April 25, 1813 in Princeton, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Moses Allen and Mehitable Oliver, and brother of David Oliver Allen.
Allen graduated from Amherst College in 1836. In 1841 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania Medical College.
In 1847 he received the honorary Doctor of Medicine from Castleton (Vermont) Medical College, and the Doctor of Laws from Amherst in 1873.
Allen practised medicine in Lowell, Massachussets until his death. He was for many years an active member of the staff of St. John's Hospital in that city. After he had come into prominence through his writings, he was made a member of the state board of charities, and in 1872 attended as an American delegate the International Congress on Prison Reform.
While a medical student in Philadelphia, Allen improved his financial circumstances by association with the well-known press of Adam Waldie as proof-reader, correspondent, and "hack" writer. This post brought him into contact with important men of his time--Horace Mann, Charles Caldwell, George Combe--and it led to his being appointed editor of the newly established American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany at the early age of twenty-six (1839). Phrenology--being then still a sister study to "mental philosophy"--had attracted to its pursuit certain of the best intellects of that period. For three years Allen (still a medical undergraduate) contributed extensively to this journal in letters, editorial comments, and numerous book reviews. His contributions, which reveal familiarity with general literature, ancient and modern, were always well written, but one observes a marked improvement in his literary style during the three years of his editorship.
Following the publication of his thesis, An Essay on the Connection of Mental Philosophy with Medicine, Allen severed his connection with the Phrenological Journal. Allen was the author of the Physiological Laws of Human Increase and Changes in the New England Population. In the former he sought to establish a "great general law of propagation applicable to all organic life" by demonstrating that the over-activity of any organ tends to the impairment of other organs and to the diminishment of fertility. In the latter, which aroused wider public interest, he endeavored to prove that the lowering birth-rate of native New England stock (as contrasted with immigrants) was due to impaired physical condition. Other important works were: The Intermarriage of Relations (1869), Physical Degeneracy (1870), and The Treatment of the Insane (1876).
Allen's published writings comprise over one thousand octavo pages, but he will be remembered chiefly for two important contributions: The Physiological Laws of Human Increase and Changes in the New England Population. His graduation thesis, An Essay on the Connection of Mental Philosophy with Medicine, was a well-argued plea for the consideration of the influence of mental states upon bodily ailments, and was apparently well received.
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He was twice married: on September 24, 1841, to Sarah H. Spaulding of Wakefield, Massachussets, who died in April 1856; and on May 20, 1857, to Annie A. Waters of Salem, Massachussets.
