The phrenological journal and magazine of moral science (Volume 14) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1154069990 ISBN 13: 9781154069990

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1841 Excerpt: ... sire to see the same certainty of admeasurement introduced into phrenology. Many endeavours have been made by ingenious individuals to invent instruments for measuring accurately the size of the different parts of the brain in the living head, but none of them, within my knowledge, has been entirely successful. When I was in Philadelphia, in the beginning of 1839, this subject engaged much of the attention of Dr Morton, author of the splendid work on the " Crania Americana;" of Mr John Phillips, a gentleman possessed of high mechanical talents, who devoted himself to the subject in conjunction with Dr Morton; and of myself: and a mode of measurement was devised by Mr Phillips, which is described in Dr Morton's work, and which was practised by them with a view to determine scientifically the size, not of each minute portion, but of the great divisions of the brain, the anterior, the coronal, and basilar regions; but even these endeavours led only to approximations to precise results. We remain, therefore, still in the condition of judging of the size of the different parts of the brain only by observation and estimation. We possess rules, however, to direct us in our estimates, and these I regard as sufficient to enable us to distinguish, with little danger of mistake, the relative proportions of the anterior, the coronal, and the basilar regions of the brain. In regard to the individual organs, I solicit your attention to two points that should always be distinguished, although they are often confounded, especially by our opponents; namely, the possibility of discovering the functions of particular parts of the brain, and the possibility of applying our discoveries in all instances. In a strictly scientific inquiry, it is only the first that we are bound to...

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• ISBN 10: 1154069990
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