Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887: Volume 1, Number 10
Science
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887: Volume 1, Number 10
Medicine -- Periodicals; Phrenology -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
To Gall's drawing, which was by no means accurate, I have added the
names of the organs as he recognized them, and given definite
boundaries to the organs which he represented by a shaded drawing,
conveying the idea of a central elevation. I have given them the whole
space allowed by his shading, and this leaves considerable space
unoccupied, as if he did not know what lay between them. Spurzheim, on
the contrary, attempted to cover the entire ground, and had a more
harmonious arrangement than Gall, in whose map we see the inventive
faculty running into murder, and avarice into music and poetry. Yet
even Spurzheim retained avarice in contact with ideality, invention,
hope, and conscientiousness. Neither seems to have realized that there
is no example in the brain of a single convolution perfectly
homogeneous, and even intermingled in its minute structure, suddenly
changing its essential functions into something entirely opposite,
when there is not the slightest separation or differentiation of the
cerebral matter. When such marked differences are perceptible, it is
due to the separation of the convolutions by the furrows or
anfractuosities into which the pia mater descends, making a
substantial separation. But this nice survey of the convolutions and
their boundaries was obviously impossible by cranioscopy, which, at
the best, could only recognize considerable differences of magnitude.
Psychometry alone is capable of minute exploration of functions, the
results of which I published in a large map of the head in 1842.
The chart of Spurzheim needs no further criticism at present. In
contrast with the chart of Anthropology, the reader will observe that
the latter presents the functions of the entire basilar region of the
brain, which are marked upon the face and neck in the most proximate
locations. The catalogue of Spurzheim is as follows:
AFFECTIVE I. PROPENSITIES.--[dagger] Desire to Live.
* Alimentiveness. 1. Destructiveness. 2. Amativeness.
3. Philoprogenitiveness. 4. Adhesiveness. 5. Inhabitiveness.
6. Combativeness. 7. Secretiveness. 8. Acquisitiveness.
9. Constructiveness.
AFFECTIVE II. SENTIMENTS.--10. Cautiousness. 11. Approbativeness.
12. Self-Esteem. 13. Benevolence. 14. Reverence. 15. Firmness.
16. Conscientiousness. 17. Hope. 18. Marvellousness. 19. Ideality.
20. Mirthfulness. 21. Imitation.
INTELLECTUAL I. PERCEPTIVE.--22. Individuality. 23. Configuration.
24. Size. 25. Weight and Resistance. 26. Coloring. 27. Locality.
28. Order. 29. Calculation. 30. Eventuality. 31. Time. 32. Tune.
33. Language.
INTELLECTUAL II. REFLECTIVE.--34. Comparison. 35. Causality.
[Illustration: THE OLD PHRENOLOGY COMPARED WITH ANTHROPOLOGY.
ORGANOLOGY OF SPURZHEIM, 1832.
In this bust we see the psychological functions of the
brain. To state its physiological influence on the
bodily functions would require a separate bust or chart.
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