The mysteries of the head and the heart explained : including an improved system of phrenology, a new theory of the emotions, and an explanation of the mysteries of mesmerism, trance, mind-reading, and the spirit delusion (1875)
Grimes, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1807-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co. · leaf 186
um. This figure, drawn by Mayo, represents in a very-perfect manner the improved — the phrenological —method of dissecting the brain introduced by Galland Spurzheini. Instead of commencing at the top,as other anatomists do, and cutting away horizontalslices, the brain, after having been kept in… … Fig.L53—(c), Conscious Centre in the Oblongata. 166 MYSTERIES OF HEAD AND HEART. This figure is copied from Spurzlieim. It repre-sents the cerebrum as consisting mostly of white fibres,similar to those that constitute the nerves of volition.These fibres proceed from the outer parts of the brainand…
Phrenology · Mesmerism · Spiritualism
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