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Lithograph of the Brain

In the 1830s, phrenology gained the attention of a number of influential physicians in France, notably François J. V. Broussais at the Faculté de medicine de Paris. A number of works were published on the topic, but none so magnificent as Joseph Vimont's Traité de phrénologie, which contained a large double folio atlas containing life-sized lithographs of human and animal crania.

In Traité de Phrénologie Humaine et Compare, 1832–35 by Joseph Vimont.


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