An examination of phrenology : in two lectures : delivered to the students of the Columbian College, District of Columbia, February, 1837
An 1839 Boston printing of Thomas Sewall's two lectures on phrenology, given to medical students at the Columbian College in Washington, D.C., and preserved by the Medical Heritage Library. The plates show anatomical studies of the brain and skull in plain engraved detail, with a designer able to draw on their clean, diagrammatic linework for scientific or historical material.
