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Elements of phrenology (1850)

Combe, George, 1788-1858 · Edinburgh : Maclachlan, Stewart · leaf 79

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his Researches onthe Nervous System, published at Frankfort-on-the-Maine in 1841, states the results of numerous experi-ments made by him on the lower animals, to be, that thehemispheres of the brain supply the exciting power, andthe cerebellum the restraining power, on the balance ofwhich… … The organ of Philoprogenitiveness is situated imme-diately above the middle part of the cerebellum, and cor-responds to the protuberance of the occiput; but a spaceof nearly half an inch on the skull intervenes betweenthe cerebellum and this organ, which is occupied by theattachment of the…

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