The anatomy of the brain : with a general view of the nervous system / by J.G. Spurzheim ; tr. from the unpublished French ms. by R. Willis ; with an appendix, and eighteen plates.
- Johann Spurzheim
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The anatomy of the brain : with a general view of the nervous system / by J.G. Spurzheim ; tr. from the unpublished French ms. by R. Willis ; with an appendix, and eighteen plates. 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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![the discoveries of Gall.' Again, as to the respective value of their writings : — ' When we enter upon the perusal of Gall, we feel as if we were in a country abounding with objects of the most striking sublimi- ty, and rich in all the dread magnificence of nature. We wander untired through the boundless variety, and we perceive in every new scene something to excite our wonder and admiration. In the works of Spurzheim, on the other hand, we feel as in a gar- den ; where all is regular and orderly; where all the different productions of nature are placed in an exact scientific arrangement; where we may study them leisurely and at our ease ; and where we may see brought together, in a comparatively small space, the product of every zone and of every climate in the known world.' Again, in No. 9, page 107 : ' In his own [Gall's] science he never can have a rival A man who is to be named only with tlie Harveys, and Galileos, and Newtons, has nothing to dread from any com- petitor; and in his own department there never can be found any similis aut secundus. The proximos illi honores have certainly been occupied by Dr. Spurzheim ; and as Dr. Johnson has remarked of Milton in regard to epic poetry, so it may be said of Dr. S., that he is not the greatest of Phrenologists, only because he is not the first. His contributions to the science betoken powers of the very first or-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21078816_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
