168 THE AVONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. am. 



Combe's Phrenological Notes. Superintendent's Notes. 



PATIENT J. M. 



Intellectual organs well de- Generally sane and tractable. 



veloped. 

 VENERATION, CONCENTRATIVE- Monomania, the Messiah. 



NESS very large. 



FIRMNESS, SELF-ESTEEM large. A proselyte Jew ; will lead the 



Jews to the conquest of Eng- 

 land. 



PATIENT C. S. 



Intellectual organs large. 



Organ of NUMBER exceedingly Dementia perpetually em- 

 large, ployed with figures and 



arithmetic. 



FEMALE PATIENT M. D. 



Moral faculties deficient. 



HOPE extremely small. Great misery. 



DESTRUCTIVENESS and CAU- Suicidal monomania. 

 TIOUSNESS excessively large. 



At the Dunstane Lodge Asylum, near Newcastle, Mr. 

 Combe, attended by two surgeons, the editor of the 

 Tyne Mercury, and a few other gentlemen, examined 

 the heads of a few patients submitted to him by the pro- 

 prietor, Mr. Wilkinson, who appended his own remarks 

 on the nature of their insanity. 



Mr. Combe's Delineation. Mr. Wilkinson's Remarks. 



PATIENT J. F. 



SELF-ESTEEM and FIRMNESS He proclaims himself to be the 



very large. Great God, and entertains a 



WONDER, SECRETIVENESS, and high esteem of his person and 



ACQUISITIVENESS also large. strength. He pilfers and 



The character of the insanity picks up little articles when- 



will be self-esteem, and prob- ever he can lay his hands 



ably cunning and theft. on them. 



