Phrenology Examined

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P. Flourens. Phrenology Examined

Phrenology Examined

Table of Contents

I. OF GALL. OF HIS DOCTRINE IN GENERAL

II. OF GALL. OF THE FACULTIES

III. OF GALL. THE ORGANS

IV. OF SPURZHEIM

V. OF BROUSSAIS

VI. BROUSSAIS’S PSYCOLOGY

VII. BROUSSAIS’S PHYSIOLOGY

VIII

Footnote

NOTE I

NOTE II

NOTE III

NOTE IV

NOTE V

NOTE VI

NOTE VII

Footnote

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P. Flourens

Published by Good Press, 2021

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This being conceded, it is evident that the entire brain cannot be divided, as the phrenologists divide it, into a number of small organs, each of which is the seat of a distinct intellectual faculty; for the entire brain does not serve the purposes of what is called the intelligence. The hemispheres alone are the seats of the intellectual power; and consequently, the question as to whether the organ, the seat of the intelligence may be divided into several distinct organs, is a question relative solely to the uses and powers of the hemispheres.

Gall avers, and this is the second fundamental proposition of his doctrine, that the brain is divided into several organs, each one of which lodges a particular faculty of the soul. By the word brain, he understood the whole brain, and he thus deceived himself. Let us reduce the application of his proposition to the hemispheres alone, and we shall see that he has deceived himself again.

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