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nigftein,* and to liein the page’s bed,+ 
all thofe who were made attentive to it 
difcovered the organ of finding and recol- 
lecting places ftrongly marked. As we 
returned acrofs the yard, Dr. G. faw fe- 
veral ideots leaning again the wall, and 
bafking there. ‘I'wo fifters among them, 
of the name of Bolutchen, made rude and 
unmannerly demonftratiors of joy at the 
fight of fome feathers which an officer of 
cavalry, who was in our company, wore 
in hiscap. Dr. G.took this opportunity 
to make fome very judicious obfervations 
relative to the confinement of thefe wretch- 
ed creatures. 
-Towards the evening the electoral hof- 
pital for the poor and orphans, fituated in 
another part of the town, was in(pected, 
where three hundred and forty two poor 
perfons and orphans are fupported. Un- 
der the name of poor are underftood ideots, 
melancholifts, cripples, and perlfons af- 
fligted with fome incurable difeatfe. 
orphans are provided for after the fifteenth 
year of their age, the boys being appren- 
ticed and ‘the girls put to fervice ; only 
thofe children who are incapable of any 
other deftination, are kept in the houfe 
amongft the poor. The hofpital contain- 
ed thirty incurableblind perfons, fourteen 
others born deaf and dumb, and many 
more who, on account of their natural 
ftupidity, rendered every attempt of in- 
ftruction unfuccefSful, but could never- 
thelefs furnifh materials for many phyfiolo- 
gical and craniclogical remarks. Dr. G. 
was ftruck at the fight of a man born 
blind, of the name of Grellman, a very 
affiduous inftruétor of the orphans, as he 
difcovered in him a peculiar organ for me- 
chanicaJ arts ; he {pends his leifure hours 
in making bird-cages, and other things 
for which the meafure of proportion is 
particularly required. ‘The exiftence of 
_the very prominent organ for mufic ina 
perfon deaf and dumb was extremely fur- 
prifing. No one had paid attention to it 
till then; and the qucftion arofe, how 
this organ could fhew its effeéts in a deaf 
and dumb perfon. After inquiry it was 
* Keenigitcin is a fortrefs fituated upom a 
high rock, about twenty-four miles from 
Prefden, pear the river Elbe, and the fron- 
giers of Bohemia. 
++ The page’s bed is a narrow projecting 
art of the fteep rock upon which the fortrefs 
of Keenigftein is built. It is related, that 
many years ago a page of the King of Po- 
Jand, in adrunken fit, went to fleep upon it. 
The King ordered him to be faftened. with 
ropes, to prevent his falling down an immenfe 
precipice. 
Dr. Galli’s Sytem of Craniology. 
The: 
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found that he ufed to do every thing by | 
time, and that he was not quite infenfible 
to the found of a drum. 
In “Gerifh, a melancholy perfon, the ° 
organs of religious fanaticifm and repre- 
{entation were ftrongly marked. He was 
known in the whole houfe as a fanatic. 
He related to us that fpirits often vifited 
him, and told him ftories of an extraor- 
dinary nature. Dr. G. found a great re- 
femblance between him and a vifionary 
fhoemaker whom he had feen in Drefden. 
In another blind man he met likewife wirh 
an elevation of the organ of fanaticifm, and 
we were told that he was fond of litening 
to the reading of theological works. Inan-— 
other he obferved that ehe organ of meek- 
nefs and good-nature, was very vifible at 
the upper part of the frunt of the fkull, 
as he had found it in a fervant of Baron 
Kaikhof at Vienna, whofe fkull was the 
firft he had feen of the fame conftruétion, 
and who wag reprefented to him as an €x- 
traordinery good-natured man. The fore 
mer had been blind fince the firft fort- 
night of his birth, and yet the organ of 
finding and recolle&ting places manifcfted 
itfelf ftrongly in the corners of his eye- 
brows. To Dr. G.’s queftion, if he viéd 
to dream often, he anfwered, that he did 
it always; and being afked of what he’ 
dreamed ? he faid, that he held moftly 
_converfations on foreign countries in hig 
dreams, and that at prefent the republic 
of the Seven Iflands engaged tis mind 
more than any thing elfe. His principal 
delight is, to hear any perfon read the 
newfpapers. In a young man half.grown 
Dr. G. difcerned immediately what he 
calls the organ of murder in a ftrange de- 
gree; and to his great furprife he was 
told that both his parents had been found 
guilty of being incendiartes, Herecom- 
mended a ftriét vigilance over him. One 
of the rooms contained four beings, which 
could hardly be called human, as their 
beaftiy ftupidity, their grinning, and 
their ftaring eyes, fhewed the greateft in- 
fenfibility. One of them was particalar- 
ly fhocking, as his prominent eyes and 
the whole form of his head mdicate’ a 
hydrocephalus. He eats ftones, and his 
own excrements, if he can do it without 
being noticed. Dr. G. faid, that unfore 
tunate creatures of this fort had-often re- 
tired to forefis, and fupported themielves 
by following their beattly inftinéts, and 
that in this manner many fabuloys ac- 
counts of wild men could be explained. 
There was in general no want of matter 
for refleftions on watery heads, or droply 
in the brain, as this diitemper was to be’ 
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