Armed with a caliper and a ceramic head, a 19th century phrenologist could supposedly distinguish a homebody from a wanderer, a generous man from a miser and a math whiz from a dunce. Such “doctors” ...
Phrenology is the vulgar Victorian term that refers to a set of conjectures first advanced by the Viennese physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). In addition to his exemplary clinical skills, Gall ...