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Medical History (53)4 2009
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William Gregory was descended from a long line of academics. Although he graduated in medicine, he had earlier determined on a career in Chemistry but more particularly to succeed Professor Thomas Charles Hope in the Edinburgh Chair in that discipline. At various times during the 1830s and 1840s he...
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PMID: 18653829
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (158)11-12 2008
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The Rollett museum comprises a lot of plaster casts including that of Angelo Soliman. This paper sheds lustre on the fate and authenticity of that plaster cast.
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PMID: 18641935
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (158)11-12 2008
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (158)11-12 2008
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The anatomist and brain scientist Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) developed the "phrenology" in the early 19(th) century. At this time, his new teachings were more seen as a temporary fashion than science and were discredited. No more than hundred years ago, it was realised that the phrenology establi...
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PMID: 18641933
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (158)11-12 2008
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We may find a bust of the Viennese African Angelo Soliman together with seven busts of other Africans in the Rollettmuseum at Baden near Vienna. Likewise, by contributing a short information, Gall indirectly stimulated the generation of the first biography on Angelo Soliman. In order to encourage in...
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PMID: 18641934
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (158)11-12 2008
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The Viennese part of Dr. Gall's collection of skulls has been preserved in the Rollett museum. This paper gives an overview of the history of the Gall collection of skulls and its transfer to the Rollett museum in Baden near Vienna.
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PMID: 18641936
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Wiener klinische Wochenschrift (120)7-8 2008
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Ugeskrift for laeger (169)35 2007
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In honor of Isaac Ray's 200th birthday, the author examines his early career for an example of critical thinking about expert testimony. Ray, a scientist from the outset, expressed interest in phrenology, a contemporary science of the mind. This paper explores a criminal case from Maine in which phr...
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PMID: 17872556
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History of Psychiatry (17)67 Pt 3 2006
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This paper studies the reception and development of animal magnetism in Spanish medicine. It analyses in turn: the initial rejection of animal magnetism influenced by the reports of the French Royal Commissions of 1784; the first attempts to implant Mesmerism around 1816; its reluctant acceptance wi...
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PMID: 17214429
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I analyse the different contributions to the study of phrenology in Great Britain and France over the past three decades and point out some aspects that should receive more attention in future research....
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PMID: 17214135
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ANZ Journal of Surgery (75)6 2005
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The pseudoscience of phrenology arose from the observations and intuitions of Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and his disciple Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). Gall believed that mental functions are localized in discrete parts of the brain, which he called organs. He located the organs subserving...
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PMID: 15943741
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Recent work on the conceptual history of intellectual disability has pointed to a discontinuity in the seventeenth century, identifying the concept as essentially modern in a more radical sense than mental illness or physical disability. However, Galenist accounts of intellectual impairment were cle...
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PMID: 15812831
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Victorian Studies (47)2 2005
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Neurosurgery (53)6 2003
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Mark Twain was a noted 19th century American writer and humorist. He often elaborated upon the personalities of his characters, and his observational skills reflected a strong interest in psychology. Similarly, he found an interest in phrenology, a pseudoscience that purported to characterize person...
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PMID: 14633308
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An overview of the history of debates on the correlation of musical skills with neurological functions in health and disease is presented. Selected biographical sketches of composers (Hildegard von Bingen, Mozart, Donizetti, Mussorgsky, and Ravel), whose neurological disease may have influenced musi...
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PMID: 14681147
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Science in Context (16)1-2 2003
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I will argue that the scientific investigation of skulls and brains of geniuses went hand in hand with hagiographical celebrations of scientists. My analysis starts with late-eighteenth century anatomists and anthropologists who highlighted quantitative parameters such as the size and weight of the...
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PMID: 12940262
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Although integration is a widely acknowledged goal in neuroscience, our approach to the function of biological entities often places boundaries that defy integration. Mapping across systems - from the genome to cognitive function - will require innovative methods that can identify every contributing...
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PMID: 12612636
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We call the neurosciences? The main part of the paper deals with recent trends in contextualist historiography in relation to the neurosciences. I suggest that one important source for the trend, as it emerged in the 1970s, was a renewed interest in the history of phrenology and its reception in Bri...
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PMID: 12012577
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British Journal for the History of Science (35)124 Pt 1 2002
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I show that Gall's system was meant to be a certain science of human nature. In the second section I analyse the reactions of contemporaries to Gall's important two-year lecture tour of Europe. I conclude that although many critics dismissed Gall as a charlatan, there was no consensus about the prop...
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PMID: 12051243
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The biography of doctor Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) and his theory of phrenology were outlined highlighting the criminological issues of it. The real scientific aspects of his work were pointed out as well as their relation to modern investigations of human brain. The unsatisfactory interest of fo...
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PMID: 14669681
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If John Martyn Harlow is known at all in the neurosciences, it is because he was the physician who attended Phineas Gage and followed up his case. Although Harlow's brief but insightful accounts of the changes in Gage's personality are fairly well recognized, and his skill in treating Gage often ack...
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PMID: 11512426
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In only the past few decades, neuroscience has expanded beyond recognition, and shows no sign of slowing down. The problems for this ever-growing and increasingly fragmented field are matched only by its potentials. This article explores possible avenues of research and ethical debate that wait to b...
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PMID: 11190238
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Brain and Language (71)1 2000
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Nature Medicine (5)7 1999
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All the contemporary evidence suggests that Spurzheim was an extremely personable individual. Evidence from his correspondence suggests that his lectures and demonstrations were very popular and well attended, and geared specifically to the level of knowledge and understanding of his audience. He ga...
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PMID: 11623875
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This paper deals with the coming into being of skulls and brains of geniuses as objects of scientific investigation. Late-eighteenth-century physiognomics and physical anthropology established parameters for explaining intellectual differences among human beings. These were refined and modified by p...
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PMID: 11640237
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Orvosi Hetilap (139)50 1998
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We know very little about the ways of thinking of their ordinary adherents. The diary of John Young (1820-1904), a Sunderland chemist and druggist and local preacher of the Wesleyan Methodist Association, affords unrivalled insights into the mind of one "physical puritan". In particular, Young's rea...
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PMID: 11620427
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We can only explain Stuart's defence of Gall's moral views supposing he considered these in a religious framework. In Stuart's conviction God had given man a certain tendency to evil which man has to accept as a necessity in the fight against evil and the search for good. ......
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PMID: 11625120
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