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 .
The Bible of Psychiatry Using charts like these, "phrenologists" once correlated bumps on the skull with character defects. Crazy as it now sounds, phrenology at least strove for measurable data, in contrast to today's subjective diagnoses.
June 20, 2013 - The North Coast Journal