A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain (1831)
Dewhurst, H. W. (Henry William), Gall, F. J. (Franz Joseph), 1758-1828, Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832 · London : Published by W. Strange · leaf 61
er conception, generally about threeweeks, we find a nucleus secreted by the ar-teries of little points of bony matter, con-gregated together. These increasing as theanimal advances in age, form fibres, andthen diverge into radii, from the centre ofthe bone; while the point from which theytook… … * Reduced from the engraving in Mr. Lizars splen-did s)stem of anatomical plates. 38 EXPLANATION. AAA The centres of ossification.—2? Theanteriorfontanels,—C C C The union of the bones by mem-branes. Organic differences of the cranium in thefoetal and adult states. The infant skull differs much in…
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