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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![ing in the mass of the spinal marrow, though they must be ditferent. The structure of the skin also must vary at different places, as is evident by the exhalations arising from it, and the hair which grows on various parts of it; but this difference has not yet been demonstrated. Neither the limits of the olfactory nerve, nor of the nerve of sight, are more distinct than are the limits of the fibrous bundles of the cerebral organs. Notwith- standing, however, we can demonstrate the relations between these bundles and the affective and intellectual faculties. Ana¬ tomy shows that the bundles which form the convolutions situated in the forehead are small, but numerous, while the posterior bundles are less numerous, but large; and we shall see that the faculties of the forehead are more numerous, but less energetic, than those whose organs are situated in the posterior and superior parts of the head. IV. The comparison of the internal organs with the five external senses is rejected as affording any proof of the plurality of the organs, because the five external senses may be reduced to a single sense, sensation, just as all the internal faculties may be reduced to the faculty of thinking. It is true that the five ex¬ ternal senses only operate some kind of sensation ; but sensa¬ tion in this sense is a general expression, and specific terms are required to indicate particular objects. Gravity, density, volume, <kc., are general expressions in physics ; but it is ne¬ cessary to specify determinate qualities to indicate the peculiar bodies of which we speak, as gold, silver, copper, iron, &;c. Life is a general expression, and life’s common phenomena, birth, nutrition, increase, decrease, and death, are observed in all living beings, in plants and in animals. It is, how¬ ever, necessary to discriminate vegetation from animalization, since nutrition is modified in plants and .animals. Secretion is a general expression ; but each ])articular sort must be indi¬ cated, and is actually performed by a particular organ ; as bile](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2929597x_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
