phrenology
- n a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties
- From the bogus discipline of phrenology--which claimed that the quality of the mind was reflected in the bumps on the skull--to the ultimately racist field of craniometry, which .
- But was the good mayor's ad hoc phrenology correct? Or was Schiller's fertile brain actually housed in another skull dug up almost a century later?.
- In the 19th century, German physician Franz Joseph Gall claimed to have licked the problem with his system of phrenology, which divided the brain into dozens of personality organs .