Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860.

  • James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics
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1860
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Credit: Thirty-third annual report of the directors of James Murray's Royal Asylum for Lunatics, near Perth. June, 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wit or Mirth¬ fulness. Individu¬ ality. Locality. Relative “de¬ velopment” of the Pro¬ pensities, Sentiments, and Intellec¬ tual Facul¬ ties. 44 which they principally found, is indicative of a high endowment of Ideality.” Nor are we. And it further appears to us, that the foundation of other organs and of other statements in phrenological treatises is sometimes similarly slender. 21. Wit or Mirthfulness.—Table I. shows that it was very large or very small in no case ; large in 42 patients (21 of either sex); small in 36 (22 males and 14 females). Table II. shows that, in 21 cases of Melancholia (5 males and 16 females), it was very large or very small in none; large in 8 cases (3 males and 5 females); small in 2 patients (1 of either sex). In 2 male General Paralytics it was large. 22. Individuality.—Table I. shows that it was very large in 7 males; very small in no case; large in 100 cases (58 males and 42 females); small in 10 cases (9 males and 1 female). The number of cases in which it was large is here remarkable. Table III. shows that the actual character furnished confirmatory evidence apparently in 4 out of the 7 males, in whom this organ was very large. Smith very properly mentions, as a caution in estimating the size of this organ, that it is the “chief seat of the frontal sinus in adults” (p. 186.) By external manipulation, how much of the size of the “ organ” to refer to the sinus in question [which varies greatly in thickness and extent], and how much to the “easily distinguished” convolutions of the brain, which are limited to the manifestation of the phenomena of Individu¬ ality, it is for phrenologists, and not for us, to indicate! 23. Locality.—Table I. shows that it was very large in 5 males; very small in no case ; large in 1C8 cases (64 males *and 44 females); small in three females. As in the case of Individuality, the number of patients in whom this organ was large is noteworthy. Table III. shows that, of the 5 patients in whom it was very large, the actual character yielded apparently confirmatory evidence in 4. The abstract of Table I. shows that the group of Propensities was very large and large in the greatest number of cases; the Sentiments standing next in point of development, and the Intellectual Faculties being lowest in the scale. There was a moderate development of the Intel¬ lectual Faculties in the largest number of cases, the Propensities coming next, and the Sentiments being lowest. As a group, the Sentiments were small in the greatest number of cases ; the Propensities next, and the Intellectual Faculties lowest. There was a very small development of the Propensities in the largest number of cases; the Sentiments coming next, and the Intellectual Faculties standing lowest—being very small in no instance. While the Propensities were very large in 2*59 cases, and very small in 036 ; the Sentiments very large in 1T5, and very small in 0*22; the Intellectual Faculties were very large in 0*53, and very small in none. There was therefore apparently a more equable development of the Intellectual Faculties than of either the Propensities