Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].

  • George Combe
Date:
1850
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Credit: Elements of phrenology / [George Combe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the moral senti- ments, herevery de- ficient. The space from A backwards, and below BC, in Hare very large, indicates the region of the propensities. Fig. 3. represents the head of Gesche Margarethe Gott- fried, a cruel and treacherous wo- man, who was exe- cuted at Bremen in 1828, for poison- ing, in cold blood, during a succession of years, both her parents, her three children, her first and second hus- bands, and about six other indivi- duals.* The line A B com- mences at the organ of Causality B, and passes through the middle of Cautious- ness 12. These points are in gene- nal, Vol. vii., p. 560.
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