MBLIC

MEM AOBK

OR,

AN EXPOSITION

OF THE

INSTINCTS, PROPENSITIES, SENTIMENTS, AND TALENTS,

OR OF THE

MORAL QUALITIES, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL INTELLECTUAL

FACULTIES

IN MAN AND ANIMALS,

AND THE SEAT OF THEIR ORGANS.

By FRANÇOIS JOSEPH GALL, M. D.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH

BY WINSLOW LEWIS, IRM: D., M. M. S. S.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1835, by MARSH, CAPEN & LYON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

MEA AOKK

YRABBLI

PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. HALL & Co.

CONTENTS.

Page.

EXPOSITION of the fundamental faculties and qualities, and the
seat of their organs, or organology. Continuation

IV. Instinct of self-defence, disposition to quarrel, courage (Muth

Raufsinn)

History of the discovery

Natural history of courage, or the instinct of self-defence.

Derangement of the disposition to quarrel

Fundamental quality of the disposition to quarrel and fight

Of the seat of the organ of self-defence

Opinions of some other physiologists on the origin of courage

Cowardice.

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V. Carnivorous instinct; disposition to murder (Wurgsinn)

History of the discovery of this instinct, and of its organ.

Natural history of this instinct in animals

External appearance of the organ of the carnivorous instinct,

and the seat of this organ in animals,

Natural history of the carnivorous instinct in man

Disposition to murder joined wrih mental imbecility

Disposition to murder in insanity

Criminal case of H*, who assassinated two persons

Continuation of the instinct of murder in a state of mental

Disposition to suicide, and consecutively to murder, proceeding

from an erroneous judgment of the nature of the crime

Disposition to suicide, and consecutively to murder, from relig-

ious fanaticism

Disposition to suicide; double homicide