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Excerpt from The Fundamental Principles of Phrenology Are the Only Principles Capable of Being Reconciled With the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul
AT the risk of being considered somewhat egotisti cal, I shall detail the history of my connexion with Phrenology. My medical education was commenced at Trinity College, Dublin, early in 1833. Towards the end of that year, it was arranged to take out Anatomical Dissections under Dr Power, who was highly spoken of as a lecturer at the Richmond School of Medicine. I repaired to his class-room, and there heard the first lecture on Anatomy I ever listened to. His subject was the Human Brain. There was a brain on the table, but the description he gave of it was quite unintelligible to me. He sliced it away from above downwards after the orthodox anatomical method. His descriptions of the different sections, as he used the scalpel, were very minute; but as he sliced away portion after portion he always took care to tell us that the use of this part, and this'part, and this part, was not known. The whole affair appeared such a farce that I had a strong idea of giving up the profession.
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