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heim became his associate, and undertook especially the anatomical 
department. From that time, in their public as well as private de= 
monstrations of the brain, Spurzheim always made the — 
~ Gall explained them to the audience. tit 
“The great interest which was excited by these lectures at 5 Wiens 
a and throughout Germany, roused the fears of that inveterate ene= 
my of all innovations, the government of Austria.. An imperial de- 
cree, which prohibited all private lectures unless by special permis- — 
_ sion, silenced the two teachers, and induced them, in 1805, to quit 
Vienna. They travelled together through Germany, ‘explaining and 
demonstrating their physiological discoveries in the principal universi- 
ties and cities ; particularly in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Halle, Hei- 
and Munic. Their anatomical demonstrations excited eve- 
tywhere great interest and applause. The great German anatomist 
and physiologist, Reit, before whom Gall and Spurzheim dissected a 
brain in 1805, at Halle, said to Professor Bischoff, who wrote an 
exposition of their shocteiines ee na seen i se anatomical demon- 
strations of the brain, made ore than g a man 
could discover in his whole life.’ 1 Secunda physiological doc- 
trines on the organization of the brain being adapted to various innate 
oie ities of mind pec en opposers, but also primes 2 ar n ad= ; 
subject was ievadint: . jes 
» “In the year 1807, Gall and Spurzheim went to Paris, whee elie 
demonstrated their theory of the brain in the presence of Cuvier, 
then the chief of the anatomical department of the French Institute, 
: tad: before many other distinguished men, and learned societies. 
Meanwhile their collections of skulls and casts of heads, had much 
increased, so that they were able amply to illustrate their doctrines 
of special parts of the head, as indicative of mental powers. — 
showed himself at first well disposed toward the new doctrine, 
expressed his approbation of its general features. But in ae Fo 
1808, when Gall and Spurzheim delivered their memoir, containing 
an account of their scientific labors, to the French Institute, Cuvier 
ebptitinst to draw up the report, in which he seemed to labor 
“ermany between the years 1802 and 1805, by Froriep and those. isch 
Blauch, Bloede ; and in Paris, in 1906, by Demangeon. a¢ 
