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The physiognomical system of Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular

"The first publication presented to the English public under the title The Physiognomical System, contained several summary views of different branches of anthropology, which can be appreciated only after having been examined with great attention in all their details. Several chapters required more development, but the volume was already too large. I, therefore, after the second edition was sold, deemed it advisable to publish several chapters as separate works, and to give another arrangement to my English publications. In one volume, I gave an abstract of the anatomy of the brain, in another, I treated of the deranged manifestations of the mind; in a third, of the elementary principles of education, and I now publish two volumes on phrenology."--Preface. Spurzheim's Phrenology, or the doctrine of mental phenomena, 3rd American edition, 1835, vol 1, p. [5].

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