Presentation at Banning Residence Museum offers a look at an odd and amusing science of the 19th century.

y By Dennis Johnson

As you read this, reach up and palpate the ridge of your brow. If it's bony and protrusive immediately put the paper down and take to something more suitable for your character like breaking rocks with your teeth or lifting Volkswagens.

Relatively flat? Nicely shaped forehead? Read on, you brainy devil, and learn a bit about one type of vintage quackery courtesy of your premier frontier phrenologist, Dr. Malatesta.

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