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Stern, Madeleine B. Heads & headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1971). First Edition, Stated.
Octavo, gold illus. cloth (hardcover), xx + 348 pp. Near-Fine, with foxing (age darkened spotting); in a tape-repaired, but otherwise very attractive , dust jacket. From dust jacket: Between the 1830s and the 1930s, members of the colorful Fowler family of New York were the leading exponents of phrenology -- character analysis based on te conformation of the skull. As the Fowlers -- primarily Orson, Edward, Charlotte, Lorenzo, and Lydia -- rode the crest of the prenologizing fervor that swept America, the heads of such notables as Mark Twain, clara Barton, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wndell Holmes, and John Brown passed under their knowing fingers. Although the Fowlers' science of the mind was denigrated as bumpology by skeptics in their own time and was discredited by latter-day psychologists, its vocabularly and ideology nevertheless left an indelible mark upon American culture. In other cursades the Fowlers also attacked corsets, alcohol, and tobacco. They advocated sex education, women's rights, vegetarianism, and hydropathy -- treatment of various ills by the copious use of water. They lectured far and wide, and hundreds of publications rolled from their presses...
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