phrenology

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PHRENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the mind, and discourse.] The science of the human mind and its various properties. Phrenology is now applied to the science of the mind as connected with the supposed organs of thought and passion in the brain, broached by Gall.
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