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Phrenology

noun
1.
A now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties.





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"Phrenology" Quotes from Famous Books



... millennium, and others of this class, with here and there a clergyman, less frequently a lawyer, very rarely a physician, and almost never a horse-jockey or a member of the detective police.—I did not say that Phrenology ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... posterior lobes should be recognized as a mark of inferiority, does not harmonize with the old ideas of phrenology. Nevertheless, it is true that a good development of the posterior part of the brain is essential to the superiority of ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 - Volume 1, Number 2 • Various
... Nemours the science of imponderable fluids (the only name suitable for magnetism, which, by the nature of its phenomena, is closely allied to light and electricity) had made immense progress, in spite of the ridicule of Parisian scientists. Phrenology and physiognomy, the departments of Gall and Lavater (which are in fact twins, for one is to the other as cause is to effect), proved to the minds of more than one physiologist the existence of an intangible fluid which is the basis of the ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Phrenology" :   phrenological, craniology, phrenologist


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