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Elements of phrenology.

George Combe, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library · 1824 · Edinburgh : Anderson; London : Simpkin & Marshall, 1824. · 3 pictures

Elements of Phrenology is an 1824 medical treatise by George Combe, published in Edinburgh and London for students and practitioners of phrenology, and held by the Yale Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Its plates chart skull divisions and measuring instruments on busts and heads, drawn in fine line with numbered zones a designer could borrow for diagrammatic labelling.

Phrenology

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