Phrenology heads or busts were tools used by people who practiced phrenology, a pseudoscience that claimed you could reveal a person's...
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Phrenology is clearly nonsense. The pseudoscience, which involves drawing conclusions about a person from the shape of their head,...
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Phrenology, the study of the skull's contours, may tell you about your character – or maybe it won't. Here's what science has to say about...
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Abstract. Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) introduced a new theory of mind and brain at the end of the eighteenth century, which he referred to as organology,...
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In the 19th century, the Viennese physiologist Franz Joseph Gall placed a formidable thumb on the scales of the 'nature vs nurture' debate...
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The Victorians believed that the shape and size of the skull could reveal details about a person's demeanour. Now it's been put to the test.
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Past beliefs can often seem funny and bizarre, and none more so than the view held for much of the 19th Century by everyone from the average...
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This Curiosities of Medical History feature looks at phrenology, the pseudoscience that said that the shape of the skull held clues about a...
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By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing a poem from our collection each week...
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Anton Franz Schreiner, 77, passed away Saturday, February 21, 2015 at Rex Hospital, Raleigh, NC. Anton was born April 29, 1937 in Apatin,...
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