25 Facts About Phrenology

Phrenology is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.

Phrenology found that the impacted areas never carried out the functions that were proposed through the pseudoscience, phrenology.

Phrenology concluded that this area of the brain was responsible for language production.

Phrenology contributed to the idea that the brain is spatially organized, but not in the way he proposed.

Phrenology was argued to be a science, when in fact it is a pseudoscience.

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Phrenology, which focuses on personality and character, is distinct from craniometry, which is the study of skull size, weight and shape, and physiognomy, the study of facial features.

Phrenology's work was translated into English and published in 1832 as The Pocket Lavater, or, The Science of Physiognomy.

Phrenology believed that thoughts of the mind and passions of the soul were connected with an individual's external frame.

Phrenology worked as Gall's anatomist until 1813 when for unknown reasons they had a permanent falling out.

Phrenology allowed for self-improvement and upward mobility, while providing fodder for attacks on aristocratic privilege.

Phrenology had wide appeal because of its being a reformist philosophy not a radical one.

Phrenology was not limited to the common people, and both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert invited George Combe to read the heads of their children.

Phrenology came about at a time when scientific procedures and standards for acceptable evidence were still being codified.

Phrenology advocated that governments should embrace phrenology as a scientific means of conquering many social ills, and his Memorie Riguardanti La Dottrina Frenologica, is considered "one of the fundamental 19th-century works in the field".

Phrenology provided an attractive, biological alternative that attempted to unite all mental phenomena using consistent biological terminology.

Phrenology contributed to development of physical anthropology, forensic medicine, knowledge of the nervous system and brain anatomy as well as contributing to applied psychology.

Phrenology was a mesmerist and combined the two into something he called phrenomesmerism or phrenomagnatism.

Phrenology was mostly discredited as a scientific theory by the 1840s.

Phrenology was active in Brazil and Canada, where he founded institutes for characterology.

Phrenology was one of the first to bring about the idea of rehabilitation of criminals instead of vindictive punishments that would not stop criminals, only with the reorganizing a disorganized brain would bring about change.

Phrenology advocated variable prison sentences, the idea being that those who were only defective in education and lacking in morals would soon be released while those who were "mentally deficient" could be watched and the truly abhorrent criminals would never be released.

Phrenology provided reformist arguments for the lunatic asylums of the Victorian era.

Phrenology was introduced at a time when the old theological and philosophical understanding of the mind was being questioned and no longer seemed adequate in a society that was experiencing rapid social and demographic changes.

Phrenology became one of the most popular movements of the Victorian Era.

Phrenology's success was partly because it was introduced at a time when scientific lectures were becoming a form of middle-class entertainment, exposing a large demographic of people to phrenological ideas who would not have heard them otherwise.

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