Medicine and of Man. You must have been sa- 

 tisfied with the homage paid to his memory by 

 the side of his grave, by all the distinguished 

 men whom Paris possesses. Nothing was want- 

 ing to his glory ; not even the abuse and calum- 

 nies of our devots de gazette" 



The person of Dr. Gall was well developed ; 

 he was live feet two inches in height, with a large 

 chest and strong muscles ; his step was firm, and 

 his look vivid and penetrating. His features, 

 though not handsome, possessed a mild and 

 pleasing expression. Every part of his head was 

 strikingly developed, measuring, above the eye- 

 brows and at the top of the ears, twenty-two 

 inches, and two lines in circumference, and 

 fourteen inches and nine lines from the root of 

 the nose to the occiput. 



Dr. Gall acquired an honorable reputation as 

 a Physician, Writer, and Philosopher; and, in- 

 dependent of the respect shown him by all 

 parties, he realised the additional reward of a 

 handsome fortune. His skill as a physician may 

 be inferred from the fact, that, in 1820, a medal 

 was presented to him, executed by M. Barre, an 

 eminent artist in Paris, by order of Count 

 Potosky, a rich Polish nobleman, who took this 

 method of expressing his deep gratitude to Dr. 

 Gall, who had cured him of an old and dange- 

 rous malady for which he had in vain consulted 

 the best medical men in Paris. On one side of 

 the medal is the head of Dr. Gall, an admirable 

 likeness; and on the other is Esculapius standing 

 at the bed-side of the patient, chasing away 

 with one hand the birds of darkness, and crush- 

 ing a frog, the symbol of ignorance, under his 

 right foot. Behind Esculapius is an altar, with 

 a skull placed upon it to denote the particular 

 kind of study to which Dr. Gall was addicted. 

 Near the couch are the arms of the Count him- 

 self. 



Taking Gall as a model of a Phrenological 

 Portrait, it is proper that we should speak of all 

 the cerebral organs belonging to our nature. 



The organs of Amativeness, Philp -progenitive- 

 ness, Adhesiveness, Combativeness, and Destruc- 

 tiveness, were all very well developed in Gall. 

 His Secretiveness was also rather large, but he 

 never made a bad use of it. He was too conscious 

 of his intellectual powers to obtain his ends by 

 cunning or fraud. He was frank and honest, but 

 acute and penetrating. 



The Marquis de Moscati gives the following 

 account of an attempt to deceive Gall, with 

 regard to himself, and of some interesting trials 

 of his skill as a phrenologist. 



" Dr. Gottfried of Heidelberg, with whom I 

 was acquainted, informed me that Dr. Gall 

 wished to have an interview with me, in order to 

 demonstrate to me on the skulls the truth of 

 what he advanced, and I disbelieved; but I de- 

 clined, and did everything in my power to ridi- 

 cule his system in society, with all my military 

 friends, and through the German, Erench, and 

 Italian periodicals. But when I saw that, not- 

 withstanding my repeated diatribes, and the 

 opposition of the medical faculty, Dr. Gall went 

 on in making converts to his doctrine, I deter- 

 mined to see him, and endeavored to deceive 

 him by presenting myself under the dress of a 

 servant. Colonel Bucher, of the fifth Dragoons, 



took me with him to the house of Dr. Gall who 

 was in Paris, and told him that he wished to 

 know his opinion about my head ; that I was an 

 Italian, had lived with him as a servant for seven 

 years, and during that interval had been much 

 attached and very faithful to him ; that it was 

 for those good qualities that he had endeavored 

 to have me instructed, but that although he 

 had given me several masters, for nearly three 

 years, I had scarcely learned to read and write 

 Italian, but had not yet acquired the French 

 language. 



" I remember as it were now, Dr. Gall opened 

 his large eyes, fixed them on my countenance 

 with a look of surprise and doubt, and then 

 began to feel my head. While he was making 

 his observations, he now and then murmured, 

 *' Ce n'est pas vrail Ce rf est pas possible!!" 

 Shortly after, having examined my cranium, he 

 said to Buoher, that an individual with a head so 

 well formed could not be of the character he had 

 just mentioned; that on the contrary, unless I 

 was blind and deaf, with the conformation of my 

 cranium, he thought I was able to acquire general 

 knowledge, particularly the languages, and geogra- 

 phical and astronomical sciences. Moreover, that 

 if I. had applied according to the development of 

 my organs, I must be a distinguished person and 

 a mad poet. When I heard this last remark, I told 

 Bucher, Ce ri 'est pas Men ! tu as trahi mon secret. 

 (This is too bad ! you have betrayed my secret !) 

 I do not wonder at the Doctor's accuracy. Bucher 

 swore that he had not betrayed me. Gall re- 

 monstrated against my suspicion, and assured me 

 of his being totally unacquainted with my trick ; 

 but I remained doubtful about the sincerity of 

 both of them, and continued to be an adversary 

 to Gall and his system. 



" However, from that day I began to study 

 craniology, and made use of the skulls of the 

 killed in battle; but I studied as one of those 

 who oculos habent, et non vident; aures habent, 

 et non audiunt (have eyes, but see not ; ears, and 

 hear not) ; and my obstinacy rendered me in- 

 accessible to persuasion. Often when I knew 

 well the character of some of my soldiers who 

 died, I sent the skulls to Dr. Gall, and requested 

 his opinion; and I must say that more than once 

 his remarks were truly astonishing; but I per- 

 sisted in my incredulity. In 1801, one of my 

 lieutenants was killed at the battle of Lintz; he 

 was a Pole of a very violent temper, a san- 

 guinary duellist, and much addicted to sensu- 

 ality. I forwarded his skull to Dr. Gall, and in 

 answer to my question, he replied that it belonged 

 to an individual very violent, ferocious, and a 

 sensualist. This time, I was the only depository 

 of my secret." 



We come now to another quality, on which 

 we should like to dwell, were we not obliged to 

 confine ourselves within prescribed limits — we 

 mean the sentiment of property. 



Many people in Paris have reproached Gall 

 with being selfish. It cannot be denied that he 

 was amply paid for his Public Lectures; that he 

 was unfortunate in soliciting the sale of his 

 Work; and that he prosecuted some of his 

 patients who refused to pay their bills. But we 

 should know his own remarks on this point. 

 " Do you see, my friend, how these wealthy 



