The Cerebral Convolutions of Man, Represented According to Original Observations, Especially Upon Their Development in the Fetus

Excerpt from The Cerebral Convolutions of Man, Represented According to Original Observations, Especially Upon Their Development in the Fetus: Intended for the Use of Physicians We have undoubtedly been too much discouraged from following this path by the ill success of the first serious attempt at a localization of the mental pro cesses. Though Gall in the beginning followed the right road - that of a careful study of the brain yet he very soon departed from it, and, starting from the fact which, speaking in general terms, is perfectly correct, that the form of the skull depends on that of the brain, believed that he could replace the labo rions and rare examinations of the dead brain by those of the living cranium. Bringing certain bunch es or bumps of the cranium into connection with cer tain mental dispositions, for which purpose he had already in his youth collected materials, he now, with his scholar Spurzheim, made a system of Phrenology in which but little was said about the brain, and which, in this form of a scientific structure, was thor oughly defective. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.