Phrenology, or, The doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body / by J. Spurzheim.

Johann Spurzheim, Charles Wheatstone, St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School. Library, King's College London · 1825 · London : published by Charles Knight ; Edinburgh ; Sold by Hill and Son ; Bath : [sold by] Duffield ; Cheltenham : [sold by] Duffield and Miller, MDCCCXXV. [1825] · 20 pictures

Phrenology, or The Doctrine of the Mind is an 1825 London treatise by the physician Johann Spurzheim, published by Charles Knight with sales agents in Edinburgh, Bath and Cheltenham, and aimed at medical readers and the general public interested in the brain. The pictures are soft pencil and stipple studies of male and female heads in profile and frontal view, with Roman numerals marking skull regions, offering a designer clean outline profiles and tonal shading from the period.

Phrenology · Brain · Brain - Diseases · Hydrocephalus · Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical · Psychology · Intelligence · Reasoning · Perception · Sense and sensation · Personality · Virtues

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