The San Francisco call., 1896-11-13
FRAUDS EXPOSED
Gifted Authors Denounce
Phreno1ogy and Phre-
no1ogists.
The Ignorant Cheats, Buffoons
and Falsifiers Go Down Before
Scientific Facts.

Phrenology, or the manipulation of
heads, is dirty and obnoxious practice,
and a source of danger also to the practi-
toner and to those whom he may later on
examine professionally. A phrenologist
is liable to contract itch. leprosy, small
pox, or many other contagious and loath-
some diseases. and communicate them
afterward to other persons coming in con-
tact with his hands during an examina-
ton. The public should carefully shuu
phrenologists and their deceptive and un-
healthy practice, for serious consequences
may result from it, as has been proven in
many instances. 1t is largely through
imaginary youths and ignorant, unscru-
pulous and unprincipled charlatans that
chronological quackery has hoaxad and
deceived many simple people. What lit
tie prestige it has gained is being rapidly
dissjpated by science. There are, how
ever, several of the most debased phreno-
logical frauds in this community who ara
continually imposing on the people and
eking out a miserable existence by the
practice of their unprincipled methods.
For the benefit of those desiring clear
com prehension of some of the many evils,
errors and false claims of phrenology, the
views of number of eminent authors and
scientific authorities are herewith SUBJ
mitted:
"We have already said that in our opin.
ion Fool and Phrenologist are terms as
nearly synonymous can be found in any
language. ."-Blackwood' s Edinburgh Mag
azine, JAM, 1928. page 100.
"Phrenology = The dogmatism and
arrogance of its advocates were really be-
rpev to- hc fnn toll Il
lasted rather too long. by Lord Francis
Jeffrey. M. P, famous Judge in the Scot
tish Court of Sessions. See Edin burgh
Review. Sept, 1926 page 318. Carlisle
"Reminiscences IL, 14) describes Jeffrey
as Instinct with honesty, intelligence"
"Phrenology One of the most ex-
traordinary theories that ever disgraced
the unfortunate science of mental phil
osophy. No man of distinguished
general ability has hitherto announced
his adhesion to their creed. Robert
Southey in Quarterly Review, London,
1886, page 1S2. Southey was an eminent
English author" Coleridge Geographic
Literaria) refers to Southey thus: BEST
gifts of talent and genius, subser-
Went to the best interests of humanity"
''Where the phrenologist has made the
prognosis and we have ourselves compared
1t with the conduct of the party has been
unfavorab bic. ''-Fraser's Magazine, Lon
don; 1s40, page 5O9
''The skull is, as any observer may
easily satisfy himself. no good guide to
mental endowments. Popular Science
Review, London, 1869. page 3S8.
Experimental physiology and path
ology, by suggesting other functions for
much of the brain surface, are thus di-
rectly subversive of much the phrenology
of Gall and Spurzheim. 4 Psychology
and experience alike contribute to discredit
the system and TO show how worthless the
so-called diagnoses of character really are.
1t is capable of doing positive social
harm. m."-Encyclopadia Britannica, ninth
edition, 1885, pages S47 to $40.
The attempt to determine differences in
functional capacity from the examination
of the head evolved all the difficulties con-
nected with the examination of the brain
and a great many more. ."-Science Supple
ment, New York, March %, 1887, page z99.
"The ignorance of those who practice
phrenology as an art, their illogicality,
impudence and rapacity for fees.
Every one is an unconscious physiognom-
ist without having analyZeu expression;
phrenologists make use of this common
ability in estimating character. The
American Naturalist, Philadelphia, Pa,
July, 1888, page 6l3.
There is nothing in common between
modern cerebral localization and the
views of Gall and urzheim."-Century
Dictionary. New York. 1890, page 445S.
"Catchpenny bumpology-it gradually
fell well nigh altogether into the hands of
quacks. 1t is not too much TO assert that
to the majority of people phrenology is
thus associated with more or less vulgar
dens OF its more popular expounders. To
invite the attention of passers-by these
persons generally adorn their consulting
rooms with hideous bald plates. each sup
posed to be typical OF bumps,
depend for their existence on the vulgar
craving for the occult. Saturday Re-
view, London, April 26, 1890. page 500.
Practical phrenology now is really but
a shrewd emplricism based on physi-
ognomy. and not upon the classical bumps
at all. Physiology has quite extfn-
guished the science OF bumps. Medical
Record, New York, Dec. 10, 1894, page 73S.
Cereb raj locaiization. Nothing so
far permits us 10 suppose that there exists
center of Judgment, center OF intelli-
gence. a center of conscience, etc'-Le
Progress Medical, August 15, 1896. Trans
lated and published by Pacific Medical
Journal, San Francisco, October, 1896
Another discovery recently made is a
big surprise to scientific students It is
that the intelligence OF human beings and
brutes does not reside in the froptaI
lobes, or cerebral hemispheres,' which
compose the upper and front portion of
the brain. During many years past ex-
periments repeated over and over sgain
have seemed to prove this. Professor
Munk OF Berlin has succeeded in
removing the frontal lobes and the
patents have beer apparently as bright as
ever as intelligent as before.'-NeW
York Journal, October II, 1895. page 10.