An Examination of Phrenology

An Examination of Phrenology

Phrenology

Sewall, Thomas, 1786 or 1787-1845

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While a professor of anatomy and physiology at Columbian College in Washington, D.C., Thomas Sewall published these two lectures to students—one of the earliest attacks on phrenological doctrine—based on his study of the brain's anatomical structure. The marginal notes in this copy of An Examination indicate a proponent of phrenology disagreed with Sewall's conclusions.

An excerpt from Thomas Sewall's An Examination of Phrenology with marginalia

Sewall, Thomas, 1786 or 1787-1845

James S. Hodson

1838

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