Phrenology examined / by P. Flourens ; translated from the second edition of 1845, by Charles De Lucena Meigs.

  • Flourens, P. (Pierre), 1794-1867.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Phrenology examined / by P. Flourens ; translated from the second edition of 1845, by Charles De Lucena Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTHOR'S PREFACE. Having been a witness to the progress of phrenology, I was led to the composition of the following treatise. Each succeeding age has a philosophy of its own. The seventeenth century recovered from the philosophy of Descartes; the eighteenth recovered from that of Locke and Condillac: is the nineteenth to recover from that of Gall ? This is a really important question. I propose, in this work, to examine phreno- logy as it appears in the writings of Gall, of Spurzheim, and of Broussais.