title: [History of phrenology].
abstract: Gall & his supporters had intuition that brain was made up with functional areas but they did not correctly place them. This false science brought nothing to medicine but it left its mark on 19th century literature. However it contributed to introducing the notion of mitigating circumstances in the legal proceeding and set up basis of professional recruitment. It left plenty of technical gears: crane casting, china busts, phrenological penholders, knobs, craniological snuffboxes and a lot of geographic maps of the skull bumps.
authors.affiliation: dc.renner@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Renner
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D010792:Phrenology / Q000266:history*