Note 3 — ARTICLE V. PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND CHARACTER OF WILLIAM MILLER, WHO WAS EXECUTED AT WILLIAMSPORT, PA., JULY 27TH, 1838, FOR THE MURDER OF SOLOMON HOFFMAN.

This case affords an additional confirmation of the truth of a physiological hypothesis, to which I have been led by numerous observations, and which, if true, is of considerable importance: viz. that the nervous and nervous bilious temperaments favour the manifestation of the moral and intellectual faculties, the sanguine and lymphatic, that of the organs located in the basilar and posterior region of the brain. I have never found, within the walls of a prison, a purely nervous or nervous bilious temperament.