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Forty years in phrenology : embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience

"The author spent ten years in the lecturing field as a Practical Phrenologist, viz: from 1839 to 1849, and in the latter year was called to become the resident examiner in the office of Fowler & Wells, which position he still occupies. During these forty-three years he has come into special professional relations with more than two hundred thousand persons, embracing every type of talent, character, and disposition, and specimens of every nation on the globe. He has been invited to visit schools and colleges, asylums for the insane, poorhouses and prisons; rare and peculiar persons--those endowed with genius in special directions; the eccentric, those idiotic in whole or in part; in fact, every odd, strange, and singular character has been hunted up and brought to test Phrenology or its exponent, and in many instances to gain hints for the better treatment and management of these peculiar cases. In all these experiences among the normal and the abnormal of the human race, many curious and interesting incidents have occurred which throng the memory and demand recognition and record.

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  • ""The author spent ten years in the lecturing field as a Practical Phrenologist, viz: from 1839 to 1849, and in the latter year was called to become the resident examiner in the office of Fowler & Wells, which position he still occupies. During these forty-three years he has come into special professional relations with more than two hundred thousand persons, embracing every type of talent, character, and disposition, and specimens of every nation on the globe. He has been invited to visit schools and colleges, asylums for the insane, poorhouses and prisons; rare and peculiar persons--those endowed with genius in special directions; the eccentric, those idiotic in whole or in part; in fact, every odd, strange, and singular character has been hunted up and brought to test Phrenology or its exponent, and in many instances to gain hints for the better treatment and management of these peculiar cases. In all these experiences among the normal and the abnormal of the human race, many curious and interesting incidents have occurred which throng the memory and demand recognition and record. This we do without giving a clew to the name or identification of any person, unless the examinations occurred before a public audience and were there made public property, thus avoiding the violation of confidence in any case. Some public characters are mentioned, but in a manner creditable to them, thus making these recollections a benefit to all and an injury to none. If these reminiscences shall tend to lead parents, teachers, managers of business, magistrates, and administrators in the varied relationships of life to be more judicious, considerate, and successful in their treatment of others; and if the professional followers of Gall and Spurzheim shall be encouraged to utter the plain and valuable truths of their mission without fear or favor for the benefh of their patrons, and for the honor of the cause, the chief purpose for which they are written will be secured"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)."
  • ""The author spent ten years in the lecturing field as a Practical Phrenologist, viz: from 1839 to 1849, and in the latter year was called to become the resident examiner in the office of Fowler & Wells, which position he still occupies. During these forty-three years he has come into special professional relations with more than two hundred thousand persons, embracing every type of talent, character, and disposition, and specimens of every nation on the globe. He has been invited to visit schools and colleges, asylums for the insane, poorhouses and prisons; rare and peculiar persons--those endowed with genius in special directions; the eccentric, those idiotic in whole or in part; in fact, every odd, strange, and singular character has been hunted up and brought to test Phrenology or its exponent, and in many instances to gain hints for the better treatment and management of these peculiar cases. In all these experiences among the normal and the abnormal of the human race, many curious and interesting incidents have occurred which throng the memory and demand recognition and record."@en
  • "This we do without giving a clew to the name or identification of any person, unless the examinations occurred before a public audience and were there made public property, thus avoiding the violation of confidence in any case. Some public characters are mentioned, but in a manner creditable to them, thus making these recollections a benefit to all and an injury to none. If these reminiscences shall tend to lead parents, teachers, managers of business, magistrates, and administrators in the varied relationships of life to be more judicious, considerate, and successful in their treatment of others; and if the professional followers of Gall and Spurzheim shall be encouraged to utter the plain and valuable truths of their mission without fear or favor for the benefh of their patrons, and for the honor of the cause, the chief purpose for which they are written will be secured"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)."@en

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  • "Forty years in phrenology; embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience"
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