The dome of thought: Phrenology and the nineteenth-century popular imagination

Machine Generated Contents Note: Preamble: `this Far-famed Skull': Exhumation And The Autopsy Of Talent -- 1. `dr Gall, The Anatomist, Who Gives Lectures On The Skull': Phrenology In Britain During The First Decade Of The Nineteenth Century -- 2. `a Field For Quacks To Fatten In': Phrenology In The British Isles -- 3. `the Doctrines Of Phrenology Shall Spread Over Britain': George Combe And The Rise Of British Phrenology -- 4. `that Strange Amalgamation Of The Two Sciences': Mesmerism, Celebrity Practitioners And The Schism Of 1842-3. William Hughes. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.