phrenologist

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• In this respect a phrenologist is a pure quack in comparison with a lady in a trance. Recollections of Europe
• By taking away what the phrenologists call combativeness, we could doubtless stop prize-fight, but we might have a springless society. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
• Eventually it became fashionable to have a reading done by the famous phrenologists, and many celebrities of the day had their heads examined, including Julia Ward Howe, Clara Barton, Hiriam Powers, Theodore Weldand, and Edwin Forrest.
• Even though the self-righteous Bachmann is a native of Waterloo, Iowa, voters in the Hawkeye State just cannot see trusting her with the codes to the U.S. nuclear arsenal trusting a Creationist like Bachmann on any public policy is akin to trusting a phrenologist with curing your cancer. James Marshall Crotty: Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How It Hurts America
• Morton picked up his craniology from George Combe, a phrenologist who believed the brain housed all the organs of character. American Connections
• No one these days would argue such a thesis at length any more than they would pontificate on the brain-measuring taxonomies of 19th-century phrenologists who took the white man's superiority for granted.
• You might think getting a globe is as relevant as going to see a phrenologist. Globe-Trot In Style
• Similarly, the 1871 book New Physiognomy, written by the American phrenologist Samuel Roberts Wells, described the Irish woman as being governed “by the lower or animal passions,” “seeking her chief pleasure from things physical and animal,” and unable to see “beauty in that which can not be eaten or used for the gratification of the bodily appetites or passions.” A Renegade History of the United States
• Professor Hubert, the eminent phrenologist and psychologist, delivered to a very large audience in the Central Hall of the Exhibition Buildings, a lecture entitled ‘How to read men and women at a glance.’
• Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.