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A system of phrenology (1835)

Combe, George, 1788-1858 · Boston, Marsh, Capen, and Lyon · leaf 92

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artition. It goes do\fi nonly about two-thirds of the depth ; below which the two hemispheres are join-ed together by fibres which cross, forming what is called the corpus callosum.The waving lines are the convolutions, the furrows between which descendfrom half an inch to an inch in depth. When… … Figure 2. represents the base of the brain taken out of the skull. This figurehas been copied from a different brain from that represented in figure 1. It islonger and narrower. The division into hemispheres does not descend to thebase. Anatomists, for the sake of giving precision to descriptions,…

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