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Show I I i' Start of Phrenology. Tho first announcement mado by Franz Joseph Gnll regarding his sys-j tern of phrenology wns In an address delivered beforo his medical colleagues In Vienna Just u century and a quarter quar-ter ago. Gall was a natlvo of Baden, but settled In Vienna In 1781 und begun tho practlco of medicine In tho Austrian Aus-trian capital. From his boyhood hq had been Interested In studying thu cranlums of his companions, and many observations und muh study convinced Mm that tho talents and dispositions of 'men moy bo Inferred with perfect -ix. nctltudo nnd precision from tho exttr-nal exttr-nal appearanco of tho skull. Thlt theory ho elaborated In many lectures, pamphlets and books, und soon gained many udlierenlb In tho scientific world, |