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doggerel by the barrel. None enjoyed these more than the doctor
himself. By his direction the funniest of the cartoons were pasted
against the wall of the gallery in which the doctor slept and the
watchers sat. Above the whole was the legend in German text, 'Tanner
Art Gallery,' and during the closing days and hours of the fast it was
a source of much attraction and a great deal of merriment to the
thousands of visitors who sought the place."

Before the fasting began I witnessed an amusing specimen of the
medical scepticism. One of the medical visitors inspected the hall
closely, and finding in the back part that a piece of nearly worn out
carpet remained on the floor, proceeded to rip it up and tear it away,
as if he suspected there might be a trap door concealed.

Medical education has been miserably cramped and benighted by the
total ignoring of the nobler element of the human constitution.

CEREBRAL PSYCHOLOGY.

The comprehensive system of science developed by experiment on the
brain, perfected by psychometric exploration, demonstrated by
pathognomy, corroborated by personal experiences and the sensations of
the head, enforced and illustrated by the study of comparative
development throughout the animal kingdom, based upon anatomy,
illustrated by pathology, and proven by every examination of a living
head, as well as every scientific experiment upon the brain in
sensitive and intelligent persons, has now been for forty years in the
hot crucible of experimental physiological investigation by
vivisection, ablation, autopsy, and electricity, and still remains as
the solid gold of eternal science.

The labors of Ferrier, Fritsch, Hitzig, Schiff, Bastian, Charcot, and
others, have added many valuable facts; but no new fact can contradict
a fact previously well observed, and nothing has occurred to dethrone
the founder of cerebral science, Dr. Gall, who ranks immeasurably
beyond all his contemporaries, and who prepared the way for the full
development of Cerebral Psychology, resulting from the discovery of
the _impressibility of the brain_, which has opened the entire realm
of _cerebral psychology_, and through that has given us access to
every realm of wisdom.

The long expected and long promised work upon this subject cannot be
published now, for it requires an amount of elaborate research and
criticism to bring the new discoveries _en rapport_ with the
investigations of more than a hundred physiologi