Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . ve learned by repeated experiencesthe injurious effects of such indulgences. The love oteating is sometimes characteristic of whole families; others,again, are never tempted to gluttony. It is in striking confirmation with the phrenology of Ali-mentiveness, that the olfactory nerve takes its rise in theconvolutions which contain this organ. Many instances of voracity are recorded by medicalwriters, occasioned by the abnormal activity of this illustrious
Brain and mind; or, Mental science considered in accordance withthe principles of phrenology, and in relation to modern physiology . ve learned by repeated experiencesthe injurious effects of such indulgences. The love oteating is sometimes characteristic of whole families; others,again, are never tempted to gluttony. It is in striking confirmation with the phrenology of Ali-mentiveness, that the olfactory nerve takes its rise in theconvolutions which contain this organ. Many instances of voracity are recorded by medicalwriters, occasioned by the abnormal activity of this illustrious Charles V., of Germany and Spain, was PRESERVATIVE OR SELFISH ORGANS. 71 disposed to inordinate eating, and ruined his constitutionby his excesses in this respect. The marble bust of him,which still exists, shows a remarkable fullness in the partof the brain allotted to Alimentiveness. A woman, calledDenise, is recorded by Mr. Combe as possessing the organenormously developed, and such an insatiable appetite forfood that in infancy she ate four times more food than otherchildren of the same age. As a school-girl, she devoured. Fig. 20.—VlTATIVENESS LaRGE. the bread of all the scholars; and, later, when at the Sal-petriere, eight or ten pounds of bread, were daily neededto satisfy her habitual hunger. Besides this, she was seizedtwo or three times a month with special attacks of hunger,during which she devoured twenty-four pounds of one day in the kitchen of a rich family whena dinner party was expected, she devoured, in a very fewminutes, the soup intended for twenty guests, along withtwelve pounds of bread. On another occasion she drankall the coffee prepared for seventy-five of her companionsat the Salpetriere. Other cases of voracity are given, whichwere accompanied with pain or heat in the locality of Ali- 72 BRAIN AND MIND. mentiveness, and where the organ was found diseased afterdeath. VITATIVENESS occupies a position behind the ear, nearly correspondin
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