CONTENTS.
Charles D. (Charles Delucena) Meigs translation
I. Of Gall.—Of his doctrine in general 17
II. Of Gall.—Of the faculties 47
III. Of Gall.—The organs 59
IV. Of Spurzheim 96
V. Of Broussais 115
VI. Broussais’s Psycology 121
VII. Broussais’s Physiology 125
VIII. Of Gall 127
Note I. Anatomical relations supposed by Gall to exist between the organs of the external senses and the organs of the intellectual faculties 131
II. Difference between instinct and understanding 133
III. Gall as an observer 137
IV. The animal spirits 139
V. Exaggeration of Broussais, even in phrenology 140
VI. Contractility of Broussais 142
VII. Real labours of Gall as to the brain 143
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Difference between Instinct and Understanding. Page 64 (Note). And he does not see that as to the instincts and the understanding all is conNote 2 · Gall, as an Observer. Page 93. He studied them (mankind) in his own way, but he studied them very closely.Note 3 · Of the Animal Spirits. Page 116. He who is so intolerant of the personifications proposed by others makes one personification more.Note 4 · Exaggeration of Broussais, even in Phrenology. Page 120. We ought to read that volume over again, and forget the Cours de Phrénologie.Note 5 · Contractility of Broussais. Page 126. He assigns it to every tissue, and, like them, he explains every thing by means of it.Note 6 · Real Labours of Gall as to the Brain. Page 128. Gall, moreover, was a great anatomist.