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Medical Curiosities, Authorial Resources

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By Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain began as a short story about phrenology. I was fascinated by the odd idea of determining personality from the bumps in our heads, and intrigued by the diagrams of crisscrossed heads containing “brain organs” ranging from poetic talent to the tendency to murder. What other (now discredited) medical [...]

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