I frequently quote Descartes: I even go further; for I dedicate my work to his memory. I am writing in opposition to a bad philosophy, while I am endeavouring to recall a sound one.
CONTENTS.
| I. | Of Gall.—Of his doctrine in general | [17] |
| II. | Of Gall.—Of the faculties | [47] |
| III. | Of Gall.—The organs | [59] |
| IV. | Of Spurzheim | [96] |
| V. | Of Broussais | [115] |
| VI. | Broussais’s Psycology | [121] |
| VII. | Broussais’s Physiology | [125] |
| VIII. | Of Gall | [127] |
| Note I. | Anatomical relations supposed by Gall to exist between the organs of the external senses and the organs of the intellectual faculties | [131] |
| II. | Difference between instinct and understanding | [133] |
| III. | Gall as an observer | [137] |
| IV. | The animal spirits | [139] |
| V. | Exaggeration of Broussais, even in phrenology | [140] |
| VI. | Contractility of Broussais | [142] |
| VII. | Real labours of Gall as to the brain | [143] |
I.
OF GALL.
OF HIS DOCTRINE IN GENERAL.
The great work in which Gall sets forth his doctrine is well known.[1] That work shall serve as the groundwork of my examination. I shall examine in succession each of the questions studied by the author; merely introducing some slight changes in the order in which they are arranged.
The entire doctrine of Gall is contained in two fundamental propositions, of which the first is, that understanding resides exclusively in the brain, and the second, that each particular faculty of the understanding is provided in the brain with an organ proper to itself.