A vindication of phrenology.

  • Williams, W. Mattieu (William Mattieu), 1820-1892.
Date:
1894
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Credit: A vindication of phrenology. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Death of the old aristocracy, 313 Deceptions practised by opponents of phrenology, 18 Definitions of phrenology, 2 Degradation of science, 172 ' De humana Physiognomia' of Bap- tista Porta, 373 Derangement of the reflective faculties, 146 Desires and motives reside in the brain, 12 Deville's, Mr. James, collection, 395 Diagnosis of cerebral diseases ; neces- sity of knowledge of phrenology in, 240 Diagnosis of cows' temperaments, 80 Difficulty of collecting casts of crimi- nals, 366 delineating character from head alone, 256 presenting phrenological evi- dence, 18 Discovery of acquisitiveness, 29 combativeness, 22 destructiveness, 24 imitation, 33 tune, 77 philoprogenitiveness, 32 veneration, 35 Disease of alimentativeness, 114 number, 114 Drunkenness and disease of alimenta- tiveness, 117 Dunn's, Mr., case of diseased firm- ness, 138 Early records of Gall's work, 37 — struggles of Gall and Spurzheim, 10 Edinburgh Evening Post's verdict, 398 — Literary Journal's verdict, 398 — Eeview on Gall and Spurzheim and their work generally, 328 denies fibres of the white matter of the brain, 331 falsely describes Spurzheim's plates, 333 Effect of love of approbation on cha- racter, 263 Electric stimulation of the brain shows more consistent results than its mutilation, 176 Epidemic ideas, 242 Erosion of convolutions of alimenta- tiveness and drunkenness, 118 Evidences from monomania, 65 Experiment by Mr. Deville, 97 Examination of utility of phrenology, 265 Failure by Gall, 76 — of mutilators, 125 — to diagnose mental disease, 115 Fallacy and folly of experimental and cerebral mutilation, 154 False statements about phrenology, 325 Faraday's lectures, 306 Ferrier as a disciple of Gall, 167 Ferrier's description of the region of aphasia, 197 — philosophical merits, 173 — statement of contradictions, 174 Firmness, disease of organ and corre- sponding derangement, 138 Force and example to be supplemented by practical training, 292 Form and size contrasted, 362 Forms of cranial prominences deter- mined by those of cerebral convolu- tions, 39 Francois the shoemaker and Gall, 79 F.E.A.S. on phrenology, 251 Frontal sinus, Combe on, 246 difficulties, 243 of elephant, 244 Sewall's misrepresentation ofr 246 Gall, a visit to, 41 — and Flourens, 319 the Abbe Voyler, 78 Eolando, 317 Serres, 320 Spurzheim's definition of phre- nology and its objects and preten- sions, 8 on the absolute size of the brain, 382 on the comparison of brain with spinal marrow, 384 on the proportion between brain and face, 385 on the size of brain compared with that of body, 383 with nerves, 384 — — — treatise on cranial and in- tegumentary irregularities, 242 — — Unterberger, 79 — Hufeland on, 43 — on mutilation, 126 — on the influence of circumstances, 47 — systematic ignoring of, 193 Gall's centres compared with those of experimental cerebral physiologists, 179 — clearness contrasted with the modern muddle, 177