Prospectus and list of members of the Phrenological Society of Paris.

Date:
1831
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    PROSPECTUS AND LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE % PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS. Translated for, and extracted from, the Phrenological Journal, No. 30. A Phrenological Society has recently been established in Paris, which has published a Prospectus, Regulations, and List of Members. The list contains names of the highest respecta- bility in medicine, philosophy, and law, in that city, with some members of both Chambers of the Legislature. The Society already consists of one hundred and ten members, of whom sixty- one are physicians. Among the members are found Andral, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris; Blondeau, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Paris; Broussais, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and Chief Physician of the Val-de- Grace; Cadet, Mayor of the fourth Arrondissement; Car- tier, Civil-Engineer; Cloquet (Jules), Professor of the Fa culty of Medicine of Paris, and Surgeon to the Hospital of St Louis; David, Sculptor, and Member of the Institute; Fal- ket, Physician to the Salpetriere; Ferrus, Physician to the Bicetre; Focillon, Assistant Physician to the Invalids; Jul- lien, Editor of the Revue Encyclopedique; Lacoste, King’s Counsel; Lenoble, Head of the Department of Public Instruc- tion ; Lucas, Inspector-General of the Houses of Detention in France ; Moreau, Inspector of the Prisons of Paris ; Pinel, Physician; Poncelet, Professor in the Faculty of Law at Pa- ris; Rostan, Physician to the Salpetriere; Sanson, Surgeon to the Hotel Dieu, &c. &c. We do not say that Phrenology has become more true since this Society bore testimony to its mei’its; but as the public in general in this country have rejected it en- tirely on the authority of men of established reputation, we ex- hibit the list of names appended to this Prospectus as authori- ties on the opposite side; and maintain that they are entitled to at least as great consideration throughout Europe as those of the C