Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body.
- Johann Spurzheim
- Date:
- 1825
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Phrenology, or the doctrine of the mind : and of the relations between its manifestations and the body. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![J‘11K KNOLOG Y. ing that the faculties of the mind are modified by bodily consti¬ tution in general, and by that of the respective organs in par¬ ticular. There are some individuals more irritable, more energetic, and more fit to be exercised than others; but the organic constitution of the whole body is not the condition on which the manifestations of the special feelings and intellectual faculties depend. CHAPTER II. Do the Feelings depend on the Viscera of the Abdomen and Thorax? A GREAT number of physiologists, physicians, and philoso¬ phers, derive the propensities and sentiments from different viscera of the chest and belly, or from the nervous plexuses and ganglions of the great sympathetic nerve. Comparative ana¬ tomy and physiology suffice to confute this opinion. There are animals endowed with faculties attributed to certain vis¬ cera, which, however, do not possess these viscera. Insects, for instance, become angry, and have neither liver nor bile. The ox, horse, hog, ^c., have a great number of viscera ana¬ logous to those of the human kind, and yet want many of the faculties possessed by man, and attributed to these viscera. There is no proportion either in animals or in man between the size of the viscera or of the ganglia of the nervous system, and the strength of the moral sentiments ascribed to them, beveral viscera, nervous plexuses, and ganglions, are likewise laiger in animals than in man, and yet the attributed qualities are more energetic in man. There is jio ])ropoi'tion between](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929597x_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
