A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain / By Henry William Dewhurst.

  • Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William)
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1831
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Credit: A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain / By Henry William Dewhurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    point out the functions of the brain, and that all hope of success from such a procedure is vain: thus, my opinion, is supported by Sir E. Home himself. He does, indeed, speak of a body of evidence which might be found, and of conclusions which tend to elucidate this peculiar enquiry; but he has not drawn even one inference in various pathological affections of the brain; he has observed head- ach, giddiness, faintness, loss of memory, want of sleep, delierium, mania, depression of spirits, melancholy, apoplexy, idiotism, hissing- noise in the ear, deafness, blindness, loss of speech, irregular pulse, stupor, the mouth drawn to one side, numbness in the arms and legs, spasms in the lower extremities, stumbling in walking, pain between the shoulders, nausea, retching, slow action of purgative medicines, vomiting, convulsions, &c. Perhaps Sir E. Home will be inclined to infer, that the brain is the organ of these symptoms, or may it be the states which are opposite them? The above will be sufficient to shew the intelligent reader, that by Sir E. Home's mode, we should never be able to determine the peculiar func- tions of the cerebral parts.* * Spurzheim's Phrenology.
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