Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887: Volume 1, Number 11
History
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887: Volume 1, Number 11
Medicine -- Periodicals; Phrenology -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
THIRTY-THREE CHILDREN.--A West Virginian named Brown recently visited
Washington to furnish evidence in a pension claim. Inquiry showed that
his mother had borne thirty-three children in all. Twenty of this
number were boys, sixteen of whom had served in the Union army. Two
were killed. The others survived. The death of the two boys entitles
the mother to a pension. General Black says the files of the office
fail to show another record where the sixteen sons of one father and
mother served as soldiers in the late war.
EFFECT OF POVERTY.--"M. Delerme, a distinguished Parisian physician,
found that in France the death rate of persons between the ages of
forty and forty-five, when in easy circumstances, was only 8.3 per one
thousand per annum, while the poorer classes of similar age died at
the rate of 18.7. That was two and one-half times as many of the poor
as the rich died in France at these ages out of a given number
living."
JENNY LIND GOLDSCHMIDT, the famous Swedish singer, died at London Nov.
1st at the age of 69. She was born of poor parents and made her first
appearance on the stage at nine years of age.
"MRS. RACHEL STILLWAGON, of Flushing, claims to be the oldest woman on
Long Island. She has just celebrated her 102d birthday, surrounded by
descendants to even the fifth generation. Three-quarters of a century
ago the fame of Mrs. Stillwagon's beauty extended as far south as
Baltimore."
CHAP. X.--THE LAW OF LOCATION IN ORGANOLOGY.
The primal laws applied to the brain--The four directions--The
elements of good and evil--The horizontal line of
division--Frontal and occipital organs and vertical dividing
line--Preponderance of the front in certain heads--Gall,
Spurzheim, and Powell--Contrast of frontal and
occipital--Latitude, longitude, and antagonism--Location of
Health and Disease, of Benevolence, Conscientiousness,
Acquisitiveness and Baseness, Energy and Relaxation or
Indolence, Patience and Irritability--Duality of the brain and
its important consequences--Errors of old system--Self-respect
and Humility--Modesty and Ostentation--Combativeness and
Harmony--Love and Hate--Adhesiveness and Intellect, median and
lateral--Religion and Profligacy--Laws of arrangement and
Pathognomy--Physiological influences of basilar and coronal
regions--Insanity--beneficial influence of coronal region.
To feeble minds, that excel only in memory, an arbitrary statement of
facts to be recollected may be satisfactory, but to those who are
capable of fully understanding such a science as Anthropology,
arbitrary details, void of principle and reason, are repulsive. A
chart of the human brain, without explanation of its philosophic basis
and relations, embarrasses even the memory, for the memory of a
philosophic mind retains principles rather than details.
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