Phrenology proved, illustrated and applied : accompanied by a chart : embracing an analysis of the primary, mental powers in their various degrees of development, the phenomena produced by their combined activity, and the location of the phrenological organs in the head : together with a view of the moral and theological bearing of the science / by O. S. & L. N. Fowler ; assisted by Samuel Kirkham.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Phrenology proved, illustrated and applied : accompanied by a chart : embracing an analysis of the primary, mental powers in their various degrees of development, the phenomena produced by their combined activity, and the location of the phrenological organs in the head : together with a view of the moral and theological bearing of the science / by O. S. & L. N. Fowler ; assisted by Samuel Kirkham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    large or very large, finds little difficulty in governing his appetite, because he has so little to govern, &c. Small.—One having aliment, small, will have but an in- different or a poor appetite; will care little about what he eats, or when he eats ; and, with acquis, large, go long with- out food, and live very poorly, rather than part with his money to pay for food. Gluttony, gormandizing, luxurious living, intemperance in ail its forms, and the unnatural cravings of the stomach, are the perverted exercises of this faculty. To see the pains taken, and the preparations made, and the time and money worse than wasted, merely in gratifying this propensity, is most astonishing: and, above all, to see the monstrous per- versions of it which everywhere abound, to the reflect- ing, sober minrl, is humiliating in the extreme. That man, made in the image of his God, and endowed by nature with such transcendent powers of thought and feeling, that man should thus make a god of his belly, and, for the mere purpose of indulging to excess this animal passion, thus de- mean and degrade himself so far below the brute creation— thus clog the wheels of this wonderful machine which we call mind, exhibits, in a most mortifying light, the depravity into which human nature is capable of being led. Yet such is the deplorable fact, and such is likely to be the character and condition of man, so long as he lives to eat, instead of eatingto live, and thus continues to indulge his animal propensities at the expense of his moral and intellectual fac- ulties. The experience of all mankind shows that there exists a reciprocal and most intimate connexion between the faculty of aliment, and the state of the stomach, and, also, between the state of the stomach and the conditions of the brain; and still further, between the state of the brain and the mental opera- tions, or, between the state of the stomach and the operations of the mind. But this subject will be enlarged upon in a subsequent chapter upon physiology. Location.—Aliment, is located just before, and a little below, destruct., in front of the top part of the ears, above the back part of the zigomatick process, and beneath the anteri- or portion of the temporal bone. It may be distinguished from destruct., by its being situated farther forward than de- struct., and a little below it. It is generally large or very large in children.