Some account of Dr. Gall's new theory of physiognomy founded upon the anatomy & physiology of the brain, with the critical strictures of C. W. Hufeland.

  • Henry Crabb Robinson
Date:
1807
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Credit: Some account of Dr. Gall's new theory of physiognomy founded upon the anatomy & physiology of the brain, with the critical strictures of C. W. Hufeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    It is necessary, in order to explain this, that we anticipate in one or two points, the enumeration of the organs. G. observes, that a very prominent swelling of the forehead is characteristic of young children, and that as they advance in years this protuberance di- minishes, and the forehead retreats. There is another observation which every one has made, that the faculty and the habit of at- tention is peculiar to children, that they have a facility and felicity in making observations which seem to surpass what we afterwards remark in them. Hence, says Gall, the apt- ness of most parents to imagine their children, in whom they remark this sagacity, are pos- sessed of singular talents; when a few years are passed overi the wonder ceases, and the miracle of three or six years old is an ordi- nary boy at ten or twelve. G. connects these observations together by placing the organs of observation in this district of the os frontis, as will be afterwards more particularly pointed out. This is also confirmed in the organ of the sexual impulse, which is seated in the cere- helium, as will be shewn hereafter. It is known that the cerebellum is, in proportion to the cerebrum, very small in children, compared with its size in adults. The gra- dual
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