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A system of phrenology.

George Combe, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library · 1825 · Edinburgh : J. Anderson [etc., etc.], 1825. · 3 pictures

George Combe's 1825 Edinburgh treatise A system of phrenology, a early medical-science book published by J. Anderson, presenting the theory that mental faculties are located on numbered regions of the skull. Its engraved plates show a bust and heads in profile and rear view with numbered cranial zones, a diagrammatic style a designer could borrow for labelled anatomical charts and scientific infographics.

Phrenology

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