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Brain - Localisation of functions

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27 images from works
  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.
  • Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Two sections of the brain, divided into different lobes and faculties, according to Hollander's system of phrenology. Pen drawing, c. 1902.
  • Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological 'faculties'. Etching after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • Names of the organs.
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    The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

    | Date: 1901 | Reference: 28018i
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    Two skulls with temporal regions of different size and shape. Photomechanical reproduction with painting, c. 1902.

    | Date: 1902 | Reference: 28067i
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    Diagram of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

    | Date: 1902 | Reference: 27968i
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    A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 27704i
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    The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.

    | Date: [approximately 1902] | Reference: 27959i
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Related topics

Phrenology
Brain
Psychology - History
Neurophysiology
Head
Physiognomy
Brain - Anatomy
Phrenology
Skull
Characters and characteristics

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