How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.

  • Samuel R. Wells
Date:
1890
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Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. [j^HE first Phrenological Chart ever produced was printed on a single slieet, the size of our common note paper, and was sold for a cent. It simply gave the names of the organs then discov- ered by Dr. GtALL. The next was larger, and gave both the names and definitions of the oro-ans ; still later, the charts of Drs. Gall and Spuiiziieim em- braced all the above, together with some account of the Temperaments. But as it was with the invent- ors of the steam-engine, the locomoti\'e, and the steamboat, so it has been with phrenologists. Each succeeding author is supposed to have availed him. self of all that has been ^Droved to be true and useful, adding thereto his own observations and experiences. Thus the improved charts of to-day are as unlike those first printed as are the modern steamers, loco- motives, and engines to those first invented. During our thu'ty years' experience in the prac- tical application of scientific rules to character read- ing, we have used many different charts, revising old ones year after year, and adding one improve- ment after another. The present work embodies our latest and best ideas on the subject, so far as they can be set forth in this condensed and popular form.
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