A brain seen from the underside; with attention to the area associated by Gall with verbal memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Date:
1901
Reference:
28011i
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London (9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) ; New York : Grant Richards : G.P. Putnam's sons, 1901.

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1 photomechanical reproduction : half-tone

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Base of brain. From Gall's Atlas 1809 (reduced). Gall.- 'I regard as the organ of verbal memory that cerebral part which rests on the posterior half of the orbital plate ... Lettering continues: "between XV and 39' (Fissure of Sylvius). See also plates IX. and X. Plate VIII"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 28011i

Reproduction note

Original design from the 'Atlas' of 100 plates to Gall's 'Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier' (4 volumes; Paris, 1810-1819)

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