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Periodical: The Phrenological Review (Bernard Hollander)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Phrenological Review, The.
1905--1906
London, England.
Language: English.
Publisher: The Incorporated British Phrenological Society.
Editor: Bernard Hollander, M.D. 1/1, April 1905-2/2, July 1906.
18 pp., threepence an issue.

This was a work of pique produced by a physician whose earlier work on phrenology had been ignored or dismissed out of hand by the British medical establishment. Hollander (1864-1934) was an Austrian who came to England in 1883 and tried to establish a simplified version of phrenology (11 rather than 35 cerebral organs) on a recognized scientific basis. He also edited the Phrenological Record (1892-1893), the Ethological Journal (1909-1911, 1922), and the Gall Journal.

Other Sources:Yale University; BL; Wellcome Library.
Issues:Phrenological Review V1 N1 Apr 1905
Phrenological Review V1 N2 Jul 1905
Phrenological Review V1 N3 Oct 1905
Phrenological Review V1 N4 Jan 1906
Phrenological Review V2 N1 Apr 1906
Phrenological Review V2 N2 Jul 1906
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read across 1905–1906, The Phrenological Review is Bernard Hollander's early-twentieth-century attempt to REHABILITATE phrenology as a science of cerebral LOCALIZATION — to re-ground it in brain anatomy and physiology. It is the most scientific and least commercial of the phrenology titles: heavy on the brain, cerebral localization, and craniological measurement, with strong attention to forensic and penal questions (criminal responsibility, insanity) and almost none of the popular head-reading apparatus. It represents the last serious bid to save phrenology by tying it to neurology — the discipline reaching, at the end, for the authority of the laboratory rather than the fairground.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Phrenology and Physiognomy