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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.
  • 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".
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

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

    Rossiter, Peter, active approximately 1986 | Date: 24 June 1986 | Reference: 3025683i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    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

    Coppard, Fay, active approximately 1968 | Date: 15 March 1968 | Reference: 2921472i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

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

    Rowlands, Gwyneth, 1915-2009 | Date: c.1960s-1970s | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/134/59
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    Lombard, J. S. (Josiah Stickney) | Date: 1881
    • Books

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

    | Date: 2013
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