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The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures.

  • Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832
Date:
1815
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Credit: The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and shut up for several weeks, return to their former residence; the falcon of Iceland, confined for se- veral months, flies away at the first moment of its freedom &c.: these and similar phenomena it is im- possible to explain by the sense of smell. It is necessary to admit still another superior faculty, sometimes called the sixth sense. HEARING. t is a@ quite common opinion that music and the faculty of speaking are the result of the sense of hearing. But neither one nor the other faculty is produced by the sense of hearing. \ First I shall show that hearing cannot produce music. Le Cat, Ackermann, and others think, that the cochlea is the most important part of the ear, and the prin- cipal instrument of the musical faculty. Acker- mann maintained that man alone has the cechlea, but different quadrupeds not only possess this part, but have it also more perfect than man. Sheep, cats, dogs, and. hogs, have the cochlea, and they are certainly not fond of music. Hence, the opinion of Ackermann falls, and that of Le Cat is erroneous, because the cochlea is in many animals, which are not sensible to music, more perfect than inman. Besides, birds, whose ear is destitute of this part, yet sing. Le Cat, knowing this contra- diction, answered that the whole skull of birds is more sonorous than that of quadrupeds, because the skulls of birds are less covered with muscles. Ne thinks that if nature had joined a cochlea to the