ABSTRACT
The interest the author necessarily feel in the advancement of anatomical science, made it impossible for him to hear with indifference, that certain discoveries had been made, some years ago, in the anatomy of the brain, by two German Physicians, Drs. Gall and Spurzheim. But though the matter did not escape his notice, he had no opportunity of considering it with the attention its importance required, till he was occupied in preparing a description of the nervous system, for the first volume of his System of Anatomy. It then became necessary for him to examine, with all care, the writings of these gentlemen on the same subject, to repeat their dissections frequently, and to compare their descriptions and engravings strictly with nature. He will not pretend that this inquiry left him very doubtful concerning the accuracy of their observations.
