Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-06-12
LIGHT on PHRENoloeY.
Some or It's Teachings Found to Have .
Firm Scientific Basis.

BONO Oh AtS Teachings Found to Have .
Firm Scientific Basis.
1t is a curious fact that modern re-
search appears about to establish q
firm scientific basis for some of the
teachings of chronology just ut .imets
when that doctrine has passed almost.
entirely out Of vogue. At the Anthro-i
biological Institute in London some
time since Mr.. Bernard Hollander read
Il paper on centers of ideation, bring
ing together the results of many
experiments in applying the galvanic
currents to different parts of the brain.
1t has been pointed out, for instance,
by various trained observers that the
emotion of JOY throws into action the
great zygomatic muscles which draw
the mouth upward and backward,
while at the same time the obicular
muscles are more or less con-
tracted. Now it has been found that
there is a definite portion of the brain
where a galvanic current produces ex-
actly this effect upon the same muscles,
although current applied elsewhere
does not move them. 49,
1t is thus apparent that the effect of
a galvanic current upon this portion
of the brain is to produce the physical
expression of joy, and it is exactly in
this place that Combe located his
organ of cheerfulness, which he after
wards called hope. Another learned
professor has stated that the brain
centers for the facial movements are
found to correspond with Calls center
for mimicry or imitation. In still
different spot the galvanic current will
cause movements Of the lips, tongue
and cheeks, indicating that here must
be the seat Of gustatory sensation. In
the year 1924. when chronology was
attracting great attention, many men
claimed to have discovered the organ
Of gustativeness or alimentiveness,
which they located over this same spot
There is also another center where
the current causes contraction of
certain muscle which rctracts tho
angle of the mouth, and is strongly
contracted under the influence of
fear, and for this reason has received
the name of tho muscle of fright. It
is in this region that Gall and Spur
hOAA1 ASNtpISu GhSAh vi VI
ness. which they found largely devel-
oped in timid people. There is still
another center which when excited by
the current, is said, to cause "raising
Of the shoulders wi tn extension of tho
arms" and both Darwin and Mantle
gaz2a have long since referred this
gesture to 'the expression of patience.
submission and the absence of any in
tention to resist" Just here was
placed Calls organ OF veneration, and
when this is defective in children,
Combe says, they are regardless of au-
thority, prone to rebellion and little
attentive to command.
1t would seem, from the facts gath
cred and compared by Mr.. Hollander
that the founders of what we are &C
customed to consider as the antiq uated
system Of chronology, though unable
in what was the state Of knowledge at
that time to demonstrate their conclu-
sions, must have been extremely
shrewd and careful observers of oil the
facts which lay within their reach.
ind that the theories which they based
upon these observations are we'll worth
careful REORGANIZATION in the light
Of modern science.-N. Y. Sun.