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The internal capacity of 59 oz. is given here from the Thesaurus Craniorum,
p. 40, in correction of that of 50 oz. stated in the memoir in Transactions of the
Dutch Society of Sciences, Haarlem, p. 21, which may be presumed to be a
misprint. Dr. Davis adds, in the Thesaurus Craniorum: “An early closure of
the sutures has occasioned a stunted growth of the brain, especially of its convolutions,
and thus prevented the development of those structures and faculties which
might have given a different direction to his lower propensities”; and he justly
adds his conviction that this was a case rather for timely treatment as a dangerous
idiot, than for punishment as a criminal.
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