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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![not only its intellectual faculties, but also its five external senses ! Moreover, the cerebellum of the ossified brain, of Moreschi and Giro, presents tranverse and parrallel rings and ridges; but the natural figure of the cerebellum of an ox is altogether different. Dr. Simson* gives an account of the ossified brain of a cow killed at Fettercairn, a village in the county of Angus, in Scotland. He allows that this brain was much larger than the natural one ; that the cerebellum, in particular, was six times bigger than usual; that it did not resemble the brain of an ox in shape ; that the cerebellum was far above its ordinary level, and much mis-shapen; he adds that one small end was quite rough, and might be suspected of having been joined to, and broken off from, the skull. Dr. Simson, however, thought it was the brain ossified, because the butcher found it in the skull; and because he to whom the cow belonged said it was such. We may add that all those who looked upon it saw it in the same light. Hallerf observed that the ossified brain, which Bartholin speaks of, was only abony exci'escence. Soemmerring advances the same opinion as ourselves, viz., that all ossified brains as they are called, are nothing more than bony excrescences, which spring from the internal surface of the skull; and gradually ])ush the brain from its place without destroying its structure. These excrescences are sometimes seen arising from the exter¬ nal as well as from the internal surface of the skull; sometimes also from both. We saw a specimen of the latter kind at Goettingen, which Peter Frank had presented to the univer¬ sity ; and in the anatomical collection of the medical school at Paris, there is a skull with a bony mass protruding both with- * In an inquiry how far the vital and animal functions are independent on the brain. Edinburgh, 1752. I Fhy. t. iv. p. 356. F,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929597x_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
