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spinal chord about an ounce and a half; and the corresponding 

 nerves, could they be collected to their minutest ramification, 



from whom Gall was said by Dr. Gordon and Mr. Mayo to have borrowed, but 

 from whom he could have learned nothing, because Reil had not published at 

 the time of Gall's discoveries, promulgated, in his Archives, views similar to those 

 of Gall, without, indeed, claiming them as his own, but without ascribing them 

 to Gall or any one. He also gave th6 parts different names such as wings, 

 mountains, teeth, lobules agreeable to none but mechanical dissectors, who, 

 like Dr. Gordon, as Dr. Spurzheim remarks, consider the anatomy of the brain 

 unnecessary to physiological and pathological views. 



Gall demonstrated the Brain to Reil, in the summer of 1 805, privately, and so 

 much pleased him that he gave Gall some of his drawings. (Examination of the 

 Objections made in Great Britain, $c., by Dr. Spurzheim. Lond. 1817.) Dr. Spurz- 

 heim here says, that Gall and he demonstrated. But he had been engaged by 

 Gall only some months before as his assistant and dissector ; and Reil's presents 

 in return were, he confesses, all to Gall. Reil calls them Gall's demonstrations, 

 and wonders at such discoveries being made by one man. A medal had been 

 already struck to Gall at Berlin (Bischojf, p. xvi.) ; all the attacks for both the 

 Anatomy and Physiology were made upon Gall ; and all the accounts of the 

 anatomy and physiology published by his pupils were given as of his discoveries, 

 without the mention of Dr. Spurzheim's name, except once, when he is thus 

 spoken of as Gall's assistant at lecture : " Gall unfolded the convolutions 

 without any difficulty by means of the fingers of the director Spurzheim." 

 (Cranologie, ou Decouvertes nouvelks du Docteur F. J. Gall, concernant le Cer- 

 veau, le Crane, et les Organes; ouvrage traduit de 1' Allemand. Paris, 1807, p. 32., 

 the original having appeared at Dresden in 1805.) We learn from this, which, 

 curiously enough, is the only notice of Dr. Spurzheim in the early history of Phre- 

 nology, how Gall and he demonstrated ! " While at Vienna, ive spoke of the 

 great leading points of our anatomical demonstration." " In 1805, at Berlin, 

 we repeated our anatomical demonstration." " Outlines of our anatomical and 

 physiological propositions were published during that spring by Professor Bis- 

 choff." This is the work already quoted. Now, BischofF speaks of them solely 

 as Gall's, and does not once mention Dr. Spurzheim's name. " At Dresden, 

 M. Bloede published outlines of our anatomical and physiological views." I 

 have read Bloede, in the work just referred to, and translated at Paris under the 

 title of Cranologie, a part of which is called Decouvertes Anatomiques du 

 Docteur Gall, d'apres V Exposition du Docteur Bloede, and find only Gall men- 

 tioned, except in the quotation just made, where he is said to have used the fingers 

 of his managing man Spurzheim to unfold the convolutions. The accuracy of 

 Bloede's work is vouched for on the ground of its being approved of by " the 

 discoverer Gall." (p. xv.) Dr, Spurzheim then goes on to say that Gall and he 

 continued to lecture and demonstrate the brain in Weimar, Jena, Gottingen, 

 Brunswick, Hamburgh, Keil, Copenhagen. Now, he never gave a lecture ; and 

 only obeyed Gall's orders mechanically in silence, while Gall was demonstrating. 

 Dr. Spurzheim never then pretended to discoveries ; and yet all the great discoveries 

 were already made. Gall assured me that the discoveries, both anatomical and 



