The phrenologist, who regulates heart and mind by undulations of the skull, has another system.
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Phrenologist
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One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.
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During a skull reading, a phrenologist would measure and carefully feel a person’s head.
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