Joseph Rodes Buchanan was an American physician and professor of physiology at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. Buchanan proposed the terms Psychometry and Sarcognomy for psychic abilities he claimed humans had. His promotion of paranormal powers in humans caught the public imagination of the period.
- Occupation
- physician, physiologist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 11, 1814
- Died
- 1899
