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Coombe's synopsis of phrenology : for the use of practical phrenologists.

Observationes medico-practicae de affectibvs capitis internis et externis : Nunc demum publici juris redditæ. Studio et opera nepotum, Bernhardini Wepferi ... et Georgii Mich. Wepferi / [Johann Jakob Wepfer].

Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.

Phrenological chart : designed to illustrate the treatise on phrenology, in the "Imperial journal of the arts and sciences".

'Back of head viewing two figures holding up screens, and his reflection in mirror"

A woman seated in a pink dress holding flowers, the head and shoulders of a man wearing a striped shirt, and a woman standing in a blue dress

Head in profile with jewelled purple, orange and yellow collar and hat

Experimental researches on the temperature of the head : I. On some points relating to the temperature of the head ; II. Effect on voluntary muscular contractions ; III. Influence of the temperature of the air / by J.S. Lombard.

Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert & Anita Traninger.

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'Back of head viewing two figures holding up screens, and his reflection in mirror"

A woman seated in a pink dress holding flowers, the head and shoulders of a man wearing a striped shirt, and a woman standing in a blue dress

Head in profile with jewelled purple, orange and yellow collar and hat

Experimental researches on the temperature of the head : I. On some points relating to the temperature of the head ; II. Effect on voluntary muscular contractions ; III. Influence of the temperature of the air / by J.S. Lombard.

Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert & Anita Traninger.

Head

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'Back of head viewing two figures holding up screens, and his reflection in mirror"

A woman seated in a pink dress holding flowers, the head and shoulders of a man wearing a striped shirt, and a woman standing in a blue dress

Head in profile with jewelled purple, orange and yellow collar and hat

Experimental researches on the temperature of the head : I. On some points relating to the temperature of the head ; II. Effect on voluntary muscular contractions ; III. Influence of the temperature of the air / by J.S. Lombard.

Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert & Anita Traninger.

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