A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain / By Henry William Dewhurst.

  • Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William)
Date:
1831
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