Coombs's standard phrenology : exhibiting the exact phrenological admeasurements of above fifty distinguished and extraordinary personages, of both sexes : with skulls of the various nations of the world : embellished with above 50 engravings, and poetical descriptions of beauty, intellect, and physiognomy : with observations explanatory of the science, adapted to the character of [blank] (1841)
Coombs, F. (Frederick) · Boston : Printed for the author [by] H.L. Devereux, printer · leaf 88
outside covering tothe Brain, and its three distinct coverings by which it is enveloped, gene-rally presents a perfect parallelism to the Brain, as it is moulded on theBrain, and may be regarded as a kind of shell-work, as it presents nomore obstruction to the growth and development of the Brain,… … Upper View of Brain. 90 The preceding cuts are correct representations of the upper andlower view of various parts about the base of the brain of an adultintellectual person. The brain is divided into two halves, or hemispheres, each ofwhich are united by means of minute filaments or thread-like…
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