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Webster 1913 Edition
Phrenology
Phre-nol′o-gy
,Noun.
[Gr.
φρήν
, φρενός
, the mind + -logy
: cf. F. phrénologie
.] 1.
The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.
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Gall
marked out on his model of the head the places of twenty-six organs, as round inclosures with vacant interspaces. Spurzheim
and Combe
divided the whole scalp into oblong and conterminous patches. Encyc. Brit.
Webster 1828 Edition
Phrenology
PHRENOL'OGY
,Noun.
Phrenology is now applied to the science of the mind as connected with the supposed organs of thought and passion in the brain, broached by Gall.