Fowler's practical phrenology : giving a concise elementary view of phrenology, presenting some new and important remarks upon the temperaments, and describing the primary mental powers in seven different degrees of development, the mental phenomena produced by their combined action, and the location of the organs, amply illustrated by cuts, also the phrenological developments, together with the character and talents, of ... as given by ... with references to those patges as "Phrenology proved, illustrated and applied," in which will be found a full and correct delineation of the intellectual and moral character and mental manifestations of the above-named individual

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887, author.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phrenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71, 430 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Thirty-fifth edition, enlarged and improved.

Place of Publication:

1846

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1477834490