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Physiology
Author(s) -
DAVIDSON RICHARD J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1280.017
Subject(s) - moderation , annals , citation , psychology , computer science , classics , library science , history , social psychology
own time, nor do we desire that our readers spend theirs. Dr Noble, however, has published a work on the physiology of the brain on phrenological principles, and on the supposition that phrenology is a well-established science. With this work he has evidently been at great pains, and on the subject and its various ramifications he has betowed considerable study and labour. The book is void neither of instruction nor of interest, and to those who believe in the truth of phrenology it cannot fail to be acceptable. Those who wish to understand the phrenological system of physiology may as well study this as any other treatise. They will find in it as much anatomy as is needful, and as much philosophy as is compatible with an hypothesis so uncertain and so little founded as phrenology. To those even without faith in phrenology, the work may prove useful. It contains much interesting matter on the pathology of the brain, and on the influence of particular morbid states on its