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To: I got the rope

This used to be a very big deal in the upper class populations during the 1900’s. It was called Phrenology;

A pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypotheses of Franz Joseph Gall; a German doctor, and such 19th centuray adherents as Johann Kaspar.
Later on, Phrenology was for the most part discredited by scientific research.


10 posted on 12/15/2018 8:06:54 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: lee martell

There are ads for “bump readers” in some of my old books.


14 posted on 12/15/2018 8:09:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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I remember an old TV western from way back in the 1960s in which a good guy (Paladin?)or another shoots a bad guy.

A local Phrenologist declares the dead bad guy as innocent because of his head shape, even though the sheriff comes out with a “Dead or Alive” poster of the dead man.

The Phrenologist later is shot by another bad guy with a “good” brain.


24 posted on 12/15/2018 8:28:22 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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