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Phrenologists: Henry Ward Beecher, John Epps, Gustav Struve, George Combe, Luigi Ferrarese, Franz Joseph Gall, Orson Squire Fowler |
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English |
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Paperback |
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58 |
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2010-05-04 |
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115548116X |
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Books LLC |
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0.21 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Henry Ward Beecher, John Epps, Gustav Struve, George Combe, Luigi Ferrarese, Franz Joseph Gall, Orson Squire Fowler, Andrew Combe, Paul Bouts, Johann Spurzheim, Eliza Farnham, Bernard Hollander, Joseph Millott Severn. Excerpt: Andrew Combe Andrew Combe (1797-1847), Scottish physician and phrenologist ; was born in Edinburgh on the October 27, 1797, and was a younger brother of George Combe . After attending the Royal High School , he served an apprenticeship in a surgery , and in 1817 passed at Surgeon's Hall . He proceeded to Paris to complete his medical studies, and whilst there he investigated phrenology on anatomical principles. He became convinced of the truth of the new science, and, as he acquired skills in the dissection of the brain , he subsequently gave additional interest to the lectures of his brother George, by his practical demonstrations of the convolutions . He returned to Edinburgh in 1819 with the intention of beginning practice; but showing the first symptoms of tuberculosis , he sought to improve his health in the south of France and Italy during the two following winters. He began to practise in 1823, and by careful adherence to the laws of health he was enabled to fulfil the duties of his profession for nine years. During that period he assisted in editing the Phrenological Journal and contributed a number of articles to it, defended phrenology before the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh , published his Observations on Mental Derangement (1831), and prepared the greater portion of his Principles of Physiology Applied to Health and Education , which was issued in 1834, and immediately obtained extensive public favor. In 1836 he was appointed physician to King Léopold I of Belgium , and removed to Brussels , but he speedily found the climate unsuitable a...
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