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A system of phrenology (1830)

Combe, George, 1788-1858 · Edinburgh : J. Anderson ; London : Longman · leaf 93

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y abouttwo-thirds of the depth; below which the two hemispheres arejoined together by fibres which cross, forming what is called the cor-pus callosum. The waving lines are the convolutions, the furrowsbetween which descend from half an inch to an inch in depth.When water collects in the internal… … Figure 2. represents the base of the brain taken out of the skull.This figure has been copied from a different brain from that repre-sented in figure 1. It is longer and narrower. The division intohemispheres does not descend to the base. Anatomists, for thesake of giving precision to descriptions,…

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