Our Lumpy-Headed Ancestors, Who Knew? Phrenology, One Bump At A Time Phrenology is a curious field because it's on to something, kind of Head injuries or a deformed skull can indicate brain abnormalities Whatever real merits it might have had were essentially lost as it became a tool for racial darwinism and carnival entertainment
Phrenology and the Civil War | Medical Care The article was good, but the subject of phrenology I about laughable It was an oddity then, and in many ways it is not hard to believe that many people thought it legit I would suspect there are those that believe in it now As disproven as it is, but I would like to find one of those heads used in the study They are somewhat valuable
Benjamin Franklin Sands 1861 | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland . . . Preferring an exploratory science of Phrenology instead of the intrusive invasion of 'matter' as in many fields of medicine, I have to point out the fine example of this specimen, @AndyHall Just an abstract inference on obviating a mute point is made here