Gall's system of phrenology

Introduzione sulla scuola di Gall. With miscellaneous notes on Phrenology, etc. Author's holograph MSS. The 'Introduzione' is a preliminary lecture to a course on the System of Franz Joseph Gall [1758-1828]. The 74 ll. contain 3 ll. of proof-sheets, copiously corrected by the author, and a biographical note on Gall, together with what are probably later parts of the course of lectures. There are also some leaves by different but contemporary hands, dealing with phrenology, psychology, etc. Produced in Milan.

c.1840

1 volume 1 l. + 29 pp., 74 ll. folio. 33 x 22 cm. Unbound.

Presented 1939.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).