. Annals of medical history. Volume III Spring 1921 Number i THE COLLECTION OF THE BOSTON PHRENOLOGICALSOCIETY~A RETROSPECT By J. COLLINS WARREN, BOSTON, HE lormidablc arrayof plaster casts ofthe heads of all sortsand conditions ofmen w hich decoratedthe railing surround-ing the gallery of theAnatomical Museumis^one of my earliest recollections of theHarvard Medical School in its old homeat the head of North Grove Street nearthe Massachusetts General Hospital. Herewas a frieze of startling, realistic appear-ance depicting all the vagaries of Natureshuman offspring. The busts of the
. Annals of medical history. Volume III Spring 1921 Number i THE COLLECTION OF THE BOSTON PHRENOLOGICALSOCIETY~A RETROSPECT By J. COLLINS WARREN, BOSTON, HE lormidablc arrayof plaster casts ofthe heads of all sortsand conditions ofmen w hich decoratedthe railing surround-ing the gallery of theAnatomical Museumis^one of my earliest recollections of theHarvard Medical School in its old homeat the head of North Grove Street nearthe Massachusetts General Hospital. Herewas a frieze of startling, realistic appear-ance depicting all the vagaries of Natureshuman offspring. The busts of the intel-lectual Cicero and Caesar and the deathmask of the great Napoleon stood literallycheek by jowl with those of degenerates andcelebrated criminals. It was not a haphazardcollection of material but a series of casts ofthe heads of well-known individuals carefullyselected and duly catalogued by the BostonPhrenological Society many years before. Few of its specimens are to be found onexhibition on the shelves of the Museum today, and the theories which it was in-tended to illustrate have long since been setaside in the advance of our knowledge ofanatomy and
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