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Periodical: Practical Phrenologist (New York)

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Practical Phrenologist, The.
1881 Monthly
New York, NY. Language: English.
Publisher: Fowler & Wells Co.. Editor: Nelson Sizer, editor.
1/1, 1881. (Vol. 7, no. 8 is August 1887.)

Nelson Sizer (1812-1897), the editor, was the author of Forty Years in Phrenology (1891), which recounts his itinerant phrenological examination of 200,000 patients over his career.

Other Sources:University of Iowa.
Issues:Practical Phrenologist V7 N8 Aug 19887 Partial
Claude-Generated Themes:   Read from 1887, the Practical Phrenologist (New York) is a late, applied phrenology paper concentrated almost wholly on the doctrine's core — the cerebral organs and the brain. Its register is the practical business of character-reading by the head: the map of faculties localized in the brain, put to everyday use. A specimen of phrenology in its applied, popular American phase, holding to the cerebral-organ doctrine that is phrenology proper — as against the physiognomy with which it is often confused.

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Topics:Phrenology and Physiognomy