phrenology: Media
pseudoscientific practice
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The divisions of the skull as suggested by phrenologists such as Johann Kaspar Spurzheim.
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German physician Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776β1832) toured Europe and the United...
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A practitioner of phrenology measuring the bumps on a boy's head to assess his future,...
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A phrenology chart showing the suggested divisions of the skull.
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