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Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe : and a review of the science of phrenology, from the period of its discovery by Dr. Gall, to the time of the visit of George Combe to the United States, 1838, 1840 / by Nahum Capen.

Nahum Capen, Frederic Thomas Lewis, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine · 1881 · New York : Fowler & Wells ; Boston : A. Williams, 1881. · 2 pictures

Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe is an 1881 New York and Boston book by Nahum Capen, published by Fowler & Wells and A. Williams, reviewing phrenology from Franz Gall's discovery through George Combe's 1838 American visit. The first picture is a plain engraved bust portrait of a man in profile with a high curled hairstyle and cravat, while the second is a phrenological head diagram divided into numbered faculty fields with small vignettes, a motif a designer could use for diagrammatic, mapped layouts.

Physicians · Philosophers · Phrenology · Johann Spurzheim · George Combe · Franz Joseph Gall

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