Phrenology

This book, first published in 1897, is a collection of essays and studies on the subject of phrenology, a popular but now-discredited pseudoscience that claimed to be able to determine a person's character and mental abilities by examining the shape of their skull. Its author, Stackpool Edward O'Dell, was a British phrenologist and writer who worked to popularize the subject in the late nineteenth century. This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of phrenology and its cultural and scientific significance in Victorian Britain.

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