Essays on Phrenology, or an Inquiry Into the Principles and Utility of the System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, and Into the Objections Made Against It (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Essays on Phrenology, or an Inquiry Into the Principles and Utility of the System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, and Into the Objections Made Against It

My first information concerning the Sys terri of Drs gall and spurzheim, was de rived from No. 49. Of the Edinburgh Re view. Iled away by the boldness of that piece of criticism, I regarded the System as contemptibly absurd, and the authors of it as the most disingenuous of men. After this, however, in 1816, I accepted an invi tation from a friend to attend a private dis section of a recent brain, to be performed by Dr spurzheim. The subject was not alto.

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