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See also:PHRENOLOGY (from Gr. OOP, mind, and Xbyos, discourse)
, the name given by See also: This was likewise the teaching of the See also:ancient See also:Egyptian philosophy; and hence, while many See also:rites were practised and prayers offered for the preservation of the heart of the deceased, there were none for the conservation of the brain.' We learn from See also:Diogenes Laertius4 that See also:Pythagoras held more accurate physiological views, as he taught that the mind and the See also:intellect have their seat in the brain . The theory of See also:Hippocrates was See also:Pythagorean rather than Aristotelian, for, although in one passage in his See also:work De corde he expresses himself doubtfully, yet elsewhere he clearly states that he considers the brain to be the See also:index and messenger of the intellect.' The cerebral seat of sense-See also:perception is also taught by See also:Plato,' who puts into the mouth of See also:Socrates the theory that the brain is the organ affected by the senses, whereby memory and See also:opinion arise, and from whence knowledge springs . The classic poets also See also:notice this dependence of mind on brain; for example, in the Clouds (v . 1276) Strepsiades accuses Amynias of not being in his right mind, and, on being asked why, responds, " You seem to me as if you had had a concussion of the brain." The two founders of anatomical See also:science, Erasistratus and Herophilus, who lived in the days of See also:Ptolemy See also:Soter, taught not only that the brain was the seat of sensation and of intellect, but also that there was therein a certain degree of localization of See also:function . Erasistratus believed that the sensory nerves arose from the brain-membranes, the motor from the cerebral sub-stance . Herophilus was apparently the first who held that the vital forces resided in and circulated from the ventricles of the brain, at least so we gather from See also:Celsus and the other authors who have preserved his views . By the See also:influence of the writings of See also:Galen,'' which directly See also:teach that the brain is the seat of soul and intellect the Pythagorean See also:doctrine prevailed among the later philosophers . According to the Galenical theory the See also:animal See also:spirits have their origin in the ventricles of the brain, and pass into the heart from which they are conveyed by the See also:arteries through the See also:body . Galen in one See also:place (viii . 159) refers their origin to the brain-substance, but the ventricular theory was that adopted by his followers, some of whom suggested that there was some relation between the shape of the head and the character and disposition of the mind.' The Arabian physicians Averroes9 and Rhazes10 adopted the Galenical doctrine and developed the See also:hypothesis of a fourfold ventricular localization of faculties, which the Greeks had originated . See also:Avicenna" added to these a fifth region . Such of the early See also:Christian authors as referred in 2 In the See also:Chaldee portion of See also:Daniel (ii . 28, iv . 5, vii . I) visions and thoughts are referred to the head . For other particulars as to early views see Nasse on the psychical relations of the heart in Zeitschr. f. psychische Aerzte (1818), vol. i . A few of the later medical writers See also:express similar views ; see See also:Santa Cruz,Opuscula medica, See also:Madrid (1624) . See also:Book of the Dead, ch. See also:xxvi.–See also:xxx . 4 viii . 30; ed . See also:Cobet, Paris (185o), p . 211,–cbpisas Si Kai soils, ra Iv Tip EyKE'bhX . 5 De morbo sacro, on Opp. ed . See also:Kuhn, i . 612 seq . ; also Epist. iii . 824 . Among later writers Licetus of See also:Genoa taught the co-See also:extension of soul and body, upon which subject he wrote two books (See also:Padua, 1616) . In this connexion may be noted a curious work by Schegkius, Dialogus de animae principatu, Aristotelis et Galeni rations praeferens quibus ille cordi, hic cerebro, principatum attribuit (See also:Tubingen, 1542) . 6 See also:Phaedo, See also:Valpy's ed . 1833, ch. xlv., p . 128 . See also See also:Haller's Bibl. anat., i . 3o . 7 De usu partium, ed . Kuhn, iii . 700.-See also:ras µiv ovv 62roSEtl;ELs Tov T7)V XOyLUTLK'1/V %"Xf/Y OLKELY EY E''yKE4aXLd, Kal 7rPEV/4a 'JVXLKIY Ev See also:aUT(, 7rEpLExeat9at 7raµ7roXv . See also v . 288, viii . 159, xv . 360 . In his See also:Definitions medicae (467, xix . 459) he says that the brain has a II'vxu) Sbva,,S, but does not specify in what See also:part the See also:power inheres . 6 See See also:Paulus See also:Aegineta, See also:Stephen's ed . 1567, cap . 62, See also:col . 363, also Actuarius, De actionibus et affectibus spiritus animalis (Paris, 1556), p . 22, C . 7 . 9 Comment. in Arist., Latin tr . (See also:Venice, 1550), vi . 73 . ' 10 " Imaginatio quidem in doubus ventricuhs anterioribus perficitur . Cogitatio vero in medio expletur . Memoria autem posteriorem possidet ventriculam." De re medica, See also:Gerard's trans . (See also:Basel, 1554), i.9 . "See also:Lib. canons (1507), p . 19, and De naturalibus, c . 6 . their writings to the relation of soul to body naturally adopted the teaching of Galen which they accommodated to their See also:theology, thereby conferring on it an importance which rendered correction difficult .
See also:Tertullian 7 in a sense expresses his belief in a theory of localization as also at a later See also:period does Thomas See also:Aquinas.2
Early in the 13th See also:century Albertus Magnus3 gave a detailed description of the See also:distribution of mental and psychical faculties in the head
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The anterior region he assigned to judgment, the See also:middle to See also:imagination, and the posterior to memory
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A some-what similar allocation was made by See also:Gordon, See also:professor of See also:medicine in See also:Montpellier (1296),' who assigned See also:common sensation and the reception of impressions to the anterior cornua of the lateral ventricles, phantasia to the posterior, this power being two-See also:fold (imaginativa and cogitativa), judgment or aestimativa to the third ventricle, and memory to the See also:fourth.5 Figures of a similar See also:division were given by Petrus Montagnana 6 and Lodovico Dolce7 still later by Ghiradelli of Bologna3 and by See also:Theodore Gall of See also:Antwerp .9 That the " vital spirits " resided in the ventricles was doubted by many, and denied by a few of the anatomists of the 17th century
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See also:Bauhin in 162110 attacked the old view, and See also:Hoffmann of Altorf showed that, as the ventricles were closed cavities, they could not transmit any material fluid
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That these spirits existed at all was doubted by See also: (ed . See also:Franeker, 1597), p . 268 . Summa theologiae, ed . See also:Migne, i . 1094, 1106-7 . Prochaska and his translator, Laycock (Mind and Brain, ii . 163), See also:charge See also:Duns Scotus with holding this view; probably he did, but he does not express it, as he simply specifies the cerebrum and its See also:root, the See also:spinal See also:cord, as the source of the nerves along which sensory impulses travel . Comment. de anima, i . 515 (See also:Leiden, 1637) . 3 See also:Opera, iii . 124, Vi . 20 (Leiden, 1651) . 4 Lilium medicinae, 1o1 (Venice, 1494) . 5 Avicenna's fifth region is interposed between imaginativa and aestimativa (De naturalibus, c. vi.) . Thomas Aquinas combines the last two, which he says are possessed by the same See also:eminence . On the other See also:hand, he says of ratio particularis, " See also:medici assignant determinatum organum, scilicet mediam partem capitis " (i . 1106) . 6 Physiognomia (Padua, 1491) . 7 Dialogo nel quale si ragione del modo di accrescere e conservar la memoria, 27 (Venice, 1562) . 8 Physiognomia, 167o . 9 Tabulae element. scientiae (See also:Rome, 1632) . to Theatr. anat . (Basel, 1621, iii . 314); Caspar Hoffmann, De usu cerebri (See also:Leipzig, 1619) . See also Spigelius, De corp. humani fabrica, 296 (See also:Amsterdam, 1645); Varolius (2591), p . 6; Wepfer, Historiarum apeplecticarum potissimum anatomise subjectorum auctarium (Amster- See also:dam, 1681) . See also many of the anatomical See also:works of this age, such as those of See also:Fernel, Cabrol, Argenterius, Rolfinck, &c . " Alexander Benedictus, Anatomica, vol. iii . (Basel, 1527) . Quercetanus is said by Laycock (following Prochaska )to have assailed this doctrine of spirits; on what ground is not apparent, as he certainly expresses himself as a believer in the old view; see Tetras graviss. totius capitis affect. x . 89 (See also:Marburg, 16o6) . Possibly Prochaska may allude to an obscure passage in the work of the other Quercetanus (Eustachius), Acroamaton in librum Hippocratis, p . 14 (Basel, 1549), not to the better-known See also:Josephus Armeniacus; but he gives no reference . 12 Opera, col . 22, 89 (Basel, 1625) . 13 Joelis opera medica, 22 (Amsterdam, 1663) . 11 De re anatomica, p . 350 (See also:Frankfort, 1593) . '3" Epist. de cerebro et See also:cort. cereb. ad Fracassatum," in Opp., vol. ii . (See also:Geneva, 1685) . 16 De anima brutorum, p . 71 (See also:Oxford, 1677), " hae particulae subtilissimae, spiritus animales dictae, partium istarum substantias corticales primo subeuntes, exinde in utriusque meditullia," &c.; also p . 76 seq . The latter regarded the convoluted surface of the cerebrum as the seat of the memory and the will, the convolutions being intended to retain the animal spirits for the various acts of imagination and memory . Imagination he described as seated in the corpus callosum, sense-perception in the corpus striatum, and impetus et perturbatio in the basal parts of the cerebrum above the crura . The thalami he regarded as the centres of sight and the cerebellum of involuntary acts . Succeeding anatomists simply varied these localizations according to their respective fancies . G . M . Lancisi placed sense-perception in the corpus callosum, R . Vieussens in the centrum ovale majus . R . See also:Descartes supposed the soul to be seated in the pineal gland, others in the brain-commissures especially the pons Varolii.17 See also:Meyer considered abstract ideas to arise in the cerebellum, and memory to have its seat at the roots of the nerves." Of later writers three deserve See also:special notice, as having largely prepared the way for the more See also:modern school of phreno?ogy . J . A . Unzer, of See also:Halle, in his work on See also:physiology extended the pre-existing theories of localization . Metzger,19 twenty years before the publication of Prochaska's work, had proposed to make a See also:series of observations on the anatomical characters of the brains of persons of marked intellectual peculiarity; but apparently he did not carry this into effect . In a more special manner Prochaska of See also:Vienna may be looked upon as the See also:father of See also:phrenology, as in his work on the See also:nervous system, published in Vienna in 1784, are to be found the germs of the later views which were propounded in that See also:city twelve years later 20 The system formulated by Gall (q.v.) is thus a modern expansion of an old empirical philosophy, and its immediate parentage is easily traced, although, according to Gall's See also:account, it was with him the result of independent observations . These, he tells us, he began to make at an early age, by learning to correlate the outward appearances and mental qualities of his school-See also:fellows . Gall's first published See also:paper was a See also:letter in the Deutsche ?. Merkur of See also:December 1798, but his See also:principal expositions were oral, and attracted much popular See also:attention, which increased when, in 1802, he was commanded by the See also:Austrian See also:government, at the instance of the ecclesiastical authorities, to discontinue his public lectures . In 1804 he obtained the co-operation of Spurzheim (1776-1832), a native of Longwich, near Treves, who became his See also:pupil in 1800, and proved a powerful ally in promulgating the system . See also:Master and pupil at first taught in See also:harmony, but they found it advisable to See also:separate in 1813; and we find Spurzheim, several years after their parting, declaring that Gall had not introduced any improvements into his system since their separation (notes to Chenevix, p . 99) . " My philosophical views," he also says, " widely differ from those of Gall." In Paris, where he settled in 1807, Gall made many influential converts to his system . F . J . V . See also:Broussais, H . M . D. de See also:Blainville, H . See also:Cloquet, G . Andral, E . See also:Geoffroy St-Hilaire, Vimont and others adopted it and countenanced its progress . Gall visited Great See also:Britain, but the See also:diffusion of phrenology here was chiefly due to Spurzheim, who lectured through the See also:country and through See also:America, and with the aid of his pupil, See also:George Combe, attracted a large popular following . His most influential disciples were J . See also:Elliotson, See also:Andrew Combe, See also:Sir G . S . See also:Mackenzie, R . Macnish, T . Laycock and See also:Archbishop R . See also:Whately, and in America Caldwell and J . Godman .
On the opposite See also:side many influential men took up a strongly antagonistic position, prominent among whom were J
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Roget, Sir See also: 396 . 18 Some of the See also:medieval views were very fanciful, thus Shabbethai b . See also:Abraham, the earliest Jewish writer on medicine (d . A.D . 959), thought that the spirit of life has its seat in the brain-membrane, See also:expanded over the brain and subarachnoid fluid, as the See also:Shekinah in the heavens arched over the earth and See also:waters . See Der Mensch als Gottes Ebenbild, ed . See also:Jellinek (Leipzig, 1854), and See also:Castelli, Commento (See also:Florence, 188o) . 19 Vermischte medicinische Schriften (1764), 1 . 58 . 2° See Laycock's trans.. in Sydenh . Society's Pub . (1851) .
degree of popularity that in 1832 there were twenty-nine phrenological See also:societies in Great Britain, and several See also:journals devoted to phrenology in Britain and America; of these the Phrenological See also:Journal, a quarterly, edited chiefly by George Combe with aid from others of the See also:Edinburgh confraternity, notably Sir George Mackenzie and Macnish, " the modern Pythagorean," lived from 1823 to 1847, through twenty volumes
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The controversy in many places was heated and often See also:personal, and thislargely increased the popular See also:interest
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In the Edinburgh See also:Review the theory was severely criticized by Thomas Brown, and afterwards in a still more trenchant manner by Jeffrey
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In See also:Blackwood it was ridiculed by Professor See also: G . See also:Carus of See also:Dresden, See also:Don Mariano Cubi i See also:Solar, W . B . See also:Powell of See also:Kentucky, J . R . See also:Buchanan of See also:Cincinnati, Hittel of New See also:York . Some, like the See also:brothers See also:Fowler, raise the number of organs to See also:forty-three; but the system of Spurzheim and Combe is that which has always been most popular in Britain . Spurzheim separated the component faculties of the human mind into two great See also:groups and subdivided these as follows: I . Feelings, divided into 1 . Propensities, See also:internal impulses inviting only to certain actions . 2 . Sentiments, impulses which prompt to emotion as well as to action . A . See also:Lower—those common to man and the lower animals . B . Higher—those proper to man . II . Intellectual faculties . 1 . Perceptive faculties . 2 . Reflective faculties . In the following See also:list the locality and the circumstances of the first recognition of the organ are appended to the names, which are mostly the inventions of Spurzheim . Gall's names are placed in brackets ?
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Amativeness (See also:Instinct de la See also:generation), median, below the inion; first determined by Gall from its heat in an hysterical widow, supposed to be confirmed by many observations, and referred to the cerebellum.'
' Other burlesque and satirical writings were published at this See also:time, notably The Phrenologists, a See also:farce by See also:Wade (183o) ; The Head-piece, or Phrenology opposed to Divine See also:Revelation, by See also: |