Synopsis of phrenology and physiology : comprising a condensed description of the functions of the body and mind : also, indicating the relative development of these organs as applied to the person examined : with references to Fowler's phrenology, also, the additional improvements and discoveries made by the aid of magnetism and neurology / by L.N. Fowler.
- Lorenzo N. Fowler
- Date:
- 1846
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Credit: Synopsis of phrenology and physiology : comprising a condensed description of the functions of the body and mind : also, indicating the relative development of these organs as applied to the person examined : with references to Fowler's phrenology, also, the additional improvements and discoveries made by the aid of magnetism and neurology / by L.N. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1] ARRANGEMENT, NUMBERING, AND DEFINITION OF THE FACULTIES. The paging refers to Fowler's Phrenology, where will be found a full description. Fig. 6. DOMESTIC PROPENSITIES.—p. 46. 1. Amativeness.—The passion of love and at- traction between the sexes as such; desire to caress and fondle. Abuse : Licentiousness and obscenity. Deficiency : Want of attention, love and regard to the opposite sex.—p. 56. 2. Philoprogenitiveness.—Parental love ; re- gard for children, pets, and animals, and attention to their wants. Abuse : Spoiling children by ca- ressing. Deficiency: Neglect of the young.—p. 61. 3. Adhesiveness.—Friendship; attachment; af- fection ; desire for society, to congregate, to asso- ciate, and to entertain friends. Abuse : Too great fondness for company ; indiscriminate connections. Deficiency : Neglect of friends and society.—p. 64. 4. Inhabitiveness.—Love of home; patriotism; attachment to the place where one lives, or has lived; desire to locate and remain in one place. Abuse : Want of patriotism ; prejudice against other coun- tries ; excessive love of home. Deficiency : Con- tinually roving.—p. 66. A. Matrimony.—Desire to pair; to unite for life; and to be constantly in the society of, and to share with, the loved one. Abuse : Sacrifice of other more important considerations. Deficiency: Want of the conjugal feeling. 5. Concentrativeness.—Unity and continuity of thought and feeling; disposition to dwell upon one subject until it is completed. Abuse : Pro- lixity ; tedious dwelling upon subjects ; inability to change subjects of thought and feeling. Deficiency : Want of mental concentration.—p. 70. SELFISH PROPENSITIES.—p. 46. F. Vitativeness.—Love of life ; desire to exist; dread of death. Abuse : Extreme tenacity of life ; over-anxious about health ; too great dread of sick- ness. Deficiency: Recklessness as to life and health; unnecessary exposures of health, and ex- haustion of vital powers. 6. Combativeness.—Self-protection ; defence ; personal courage ; resistance ; boldness ; resolution; the let-me-alone disposition. Abuse : Pugnacity ; a quick, fiery, ungovernable temperament; a fault- finding, contentious disposition. Deficiency : Want of courage and disposition to contend for rights.-— p. 75. 7. Destructiveness.—Exccutivcncss ; energy ; indignation ; hatred ; retribution; and a destroying, pain-causing, exterminating disposition. Abuse : Rage ; malice; revenge ; premeditated cruelty ; murder. Deficiency : Extreme gentleness.—p. 82. 8. Alimentiveness.—Appetite ; desire for nutri- tion, and enjoyment of food and drink. Abuse : Gluttony ; gormandizing; drunkenness ; habits of indulging the appetite. Deficiency : Want of appe- tite.—p. 86. 9. Acquisitiveness.—Desire to acquire and pos- sess money, property, &c.; to trade ; to save and take care of property; the mine and thine feeling. Abuse : Avarice, theft, extreme selfishness. Defi- ciency : Profuseness ; spending money without dis- cretion.—p. 89. 10. „ Secretiveness.—Secresy ; concealment , cunning ; evasion ; policy ; management; ability and disposition to disguise and play the opossum Abuse: Hypocrisy ; deceit; lying; double dealing. Deficiency : Want of tact; too great frankness.— p. 96.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21120341_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
