CANNON, Alexander (1896 ? 1963). Phrenology and Medicine Scrapbook. 1930s. Thick 4to album overstuffed with brochures, advertisements, newspaper clippings, typescripts, programs, mailing covers addressed to Cannon, correspondence, brochures, invitations, small letterpress posters (folded), and other printed ephemera, compiled by Sir Alexander Cannon, with the contents related to the various pseudo-scientific interests and cures he championed, as well as advertisements for pharmaceutical treatments, hormone treatments, and information on various ailments. Approximately 500 items in all, mounted primarily to rectos. First several leaves damaged in corners, but contents generally in good condition, with some edgewear and folds as expected.Cannon was a trained clinician with a curious if misguided moral compass. A combination of psychiatrist, occultist, and hypnotist, Cannon used unusual and perhaps fraudulent medical practices to ?cure? his patients and claimed he could bring the dead back to life. He was an ardent proponent of spiritualism, and for a time before the King?s abdication, exerted some influence in the life of Edward VIII, to whom he reportedly provided hypnotic treatments for either drunkenness or sexual disfunction.