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A system of phrenology / by George Combe.

George Combe, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library · 1830 · Edinburgh : J. Anderson ; London : Longman, 1830. · 34 pictures

George Combe's 1830 Edinburgh and London treatise A System of Phrenology, a medical and popular text for readers of the period who wanted to map character onto the skull. Its pictures are plain line profiles of heads set over a grid of squares on a dark ground, with starred marks and dotted lines locating the supposed seats of faculties, a schematic diagram style a designer could borrow for clean, instructional head diagrams.

Phrenology

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