Observations on the structure of the brain, comprising an estimate of the claims of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim to discovery in the anatomy of that organ / By John Gordon.

  • Gordon, John, 1786-1818.
Date:
1817
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Credit: Observations on the structure of the brain, comprising an estimate of the claims of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim to discovery in the anatomy of that organ / By John Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN. The interest I necessarily feel in the advance¬ ment of anatomical science, made it impossible for me to hear with indifference, that certain dis¬ coveries had been made, some years ago, in the anatomy of the brain, by two German Physi¬ cians, Drs. Gall and Spurzheim. But though the matter did not escape my notice, I had no opportunity of considering it with the attention its importance required, till I was occupied in pre¬ paring a description of the nervous system, for the first volume of my System of Anatomy. It then became necessary for me to examine, with all care, the writings of these gentlemen on the same sub-