Elements of Phrenology Applied to the Human Character: Slowing the Talents and Disposition (Classic Reprint)

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Gallager, a merchant of Cincinnati, of a partial idiot that he knew in Kensington, Philadelphia. His name was Thomas Teese. He was entirely wanting in the reflective organs, and had no intelligence whatever - could call one or two names indistinctly, but could not talk. He was entirely incapable of taking care of himself, and a complete idiot, except in one thing. He had the organ of music, and could sing any tune he heard - not in words, but merely the tune. Sometimes he became violent, and could be soothed im mediately by music. On one occasion he heard a gentle man sing, and when the person went away, sang the tune correctly. Several years afterwards that gentleman retu rn ed, and when he came in the door the idiot commenced singing the same tune, and sang it through correctly The limits of this work will not admit of a further detail of the many facts that have been collected, of this description.

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