How to read heads, or, Practical physiognomy made easy : the science and art of reading character briefly outlined, illustrated, and explained / by James Coates.

  • Coates, James, 1843-1933.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: How to read heads, or, Practical physiognomy made easy : the science and art of reading character briefly outlined, illustrated, and explained / by James Coates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Phreno-Centres of Ideation * CHAPTER VI. General Principles. The Brain is the chief organ of the mind. The body as a whole manifests mind. As is brain and body, or organisation, so is mind. The Brain “is not a simple unit, but a collection of many peculiar instruments,” called organs or centres. Neither is the mind a unit, but the sum of many faculties. The Brain is subject to growth, the mind is subject to develop- ment. Arrested growth in the one means imperfect development of the other, contrariwise, otherwise, etc. The Skull in life as perfectly conforms anatomically to the * The Organs—centres—are all double, each faculty of the mind having two lying at corresponding locations in the cerebral hemispheres. The above ideal map presenting those of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum and cerebellum only.