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From: John van Wyhe’s\u00a0The History of Phrenology on the Web<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1. Circumference. <\/em>From centre of forehead around the head across the most prominent part of occiput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARCHES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Occipito-Frontal. <\/em>(Longitudinal measure) from glabella at root of nose over top of head to most prominent part of occiput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Lower Frontal. <\/em>Between upper insertion of ear, over glabella. (Mark distance from ear to eyebrow.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Middle Frontal. O<\/em>ver centre of forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Upper Frontal. O<\/em>ver frontal eminences. (Mark distance to frontal eminences.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Posterior Frontal. A<\/em>cross anterior border line of hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Anterior Parietal. V<\/em>ertically across head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Posterior Parietal. A<\/em>cross parietal eminences. (Mark distance to parietal eminence.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Occipital. A<\/em>cross most prominent part of occiput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Cerebellar. <\/em>Between upper insertion of ear, across nape of neck at junction of occipital bone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIAMETERS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Longitudinal. <\/em>From glabella to most prominent part of occiput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Lower Frontal. <\/em>Between the two external angular processes of frontal bone at outer corner of eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Upper Frontal. <\/em>Between two points above external angular processes on line of frontal eminences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Middle Temporal. <\/em>Between the two most projecting portions of temporal bone in a vertical line above opening of ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. Posterior Temporal. <\/em>Between two points just above and behind the mastoid processes behind the ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16. Bi-Parietal. <\/em>Between the two parietal eminences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writings about phrenology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cooter, R. (1976). Phrenology and British alienists, c. 1825-1845. Medical History<\/em>, 20, 1-21; 135-151.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooter, R. (1976). Phrenology: The provocation of progress, History of Science,<\/em> 14, 211-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooter, R. (1984). The cultural meaning of popular science: Phrenology and the organization of consent in nineteenth-century Britain<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies, John D. (1955). Phrenology: Fact and science: A nineteenth-century crusade.<\/em> New Haven: Archon Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Giustino, D. (1975). Conquest of mind: Phrenology and Victorian social thought.<\/em> London: Croom Helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenblatt, S. (1995) Phrenology in the science and culture of the 19th century, Neurosurgery<\/em> , 37, 790-805<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hedderley, F. (1970). Phrenology: A study of mind.<\/em> London: Fowler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macmillan, M. (2002). An odd kind of fame: stories of Phineas Gage<\/em>. Boston, MA: MIT Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCandless, P. (1992). Mesmerism and phrenology in antebellum Charleston: ‘Enough of the marvelous.’ Journal of Southern History<\/em>, 58, 199-230.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riegel, Robert E. (1933). The introduction of phrenology to the United States, The American Historical Review<\/em>, 39, 73-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapin, Steven (1975). Phrenological knowledge and social structure in nineteenth-century. Annals of Science<\/em>, 32, 219-232.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapin, Steven (1978). The politics of observation: Cerebral anatomy and social interests in the Edinburgh phrenological debates. In R. Wallis (Ed.) On the margins of science: The social construction of rejected knowledge. Sociological Review Monographs,<\/em> 27, pp. 139-178.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shapin, Stephen (1979). Homo phrenologicus: Antropological perspectives on an historical problem. In B. Barnes and S. Shapin (Eds.) Natural order: Historical studies in scientific culture<\/em> (pp. 41-71). London: Sage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stern, Madeleine, B. (1971). Heads and headlines: The phrenological Fowlers<\/em>. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swerling, Stephanie (1999). Pseudoscience in antebellum Athens. Retrieved December 20, 2005.\u00a0http:\/\/www.arches.uga.edu\/~mgagnon\/students\/Swerling.htm#3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Stoehr (1987). Robert H. Collyer ‘s technology of the soul. In Arthur Wrobel, (ed.) Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth century <\/em>America<\/em>. (pp. 21-45). Louiville, KY: University of Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temkin, O. 91947). Gall and the phrenological movement. Bulletin of the History of Medicine<\/em>, 21, 275-321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wyhe, J. The history of phrenology on the Web.\u00a0http:\/\/pages.britishlibrary.net\/phrenology\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young, R. (1990). Gall and phrenology: Speculation versus observation versus experiment. In R. Young, Mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century: Cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier<\/em> (pp.9-53). NY: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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