a most violent and intolerable pain in his forehead, particularly in the lower portion, and on that account had requested an examination." He continued his remarks, saying, "that his memory of business, which, up to that time, had been remarkably retentive, had failed him, and that his intellectual faculties appeared to have sustained some injury; and that this was occasioned chiefly at a recent sitting of the court, when his mental faculties were employed to their utmost stretch, for several days and nights in succession, upon very difficult law cases, both in behalf of the state as well as for private individuals." This gentleman is about sixty years of age, has a strong constitution, and a most active temperament. ARTICLE IV. CASE OF INJURY OF THE HEAD CONFIRMATORY OF PHRENOLOGY. Dr. Drake, now professor in the Medical Institute of Louisville, Ky. communicated to the "Western Journal of Medical and Physical Sciences," in the year 1835, an interesting case of the pathology of the brain. The facts involved in this case, afford not only positive evidence of the existence and location of the organ of Language, but serve to throw additional light on the nature of its functions. Dr. Drake then resided at Cincinnati, Ohio; and the individual whose head was affected, was Mr. C. Van Zant, of Louisville, Ky. This gentleman called upon Dr. D. for advice, complaining of pain in his head. He had received a contusion upon the head by a ball, without a laceration of the integuments, and had suffered by epileptic fits. At this time," he had almost entirely lost the power of recollecting proper names, to whatever class of objects they may belong." "When he called upon me," says Dr. D. "he could not tell the name of the city (Louisville) where he belonged, nor of the river (Ohio), nor of the steamboat (Michigan) on which he had made the voyage, nor of the city where he then was (Cincinnati), nor my name. To enable himself to find me, he had written my name upon a bit of paper, from which he read it when inquiring for my office." "I at first supposed, for a moment, that he was deranged, or idiotic, but soon discovered that his mind was otherwise nearly sound, for his narrative was intelligible and well connected, though when he came to a proper name he stopped, and had to substitute a description of the object." In every interview had with him, the same "phenomena was manifested," though once or twice he succeeded in recalling the name which was desired. He could not recall the names of any place where he had lived, or of any towns around Louisville, his present residence; he could not mention any of the names of the physicians who had attended him, though he could distinctly relate all they had done for him. He could recollect none of the names of the journeymen he employed, though he could state their different qualifications. It was with great difficulty and study only, that he could, on any occasion, recollect his children's names; "but when it came to his own baptismal name, and that of his wife, he could not proceed." Upon putting a slate and pencil into his hands, he was sometimes able to write a proper name, and then to read it; but in one case he wrote "Kentucky" instead of Louisville, for the city in which he resides. He could use common nouns without the least difficulty, such as rivers, town, doctor, medicine, state, boat, &c. and also every part of speech, except proper names. The pain of which he complained, is in his temple and about the eye. The left eye is watery, and the sight of both is weak, and their motions unsteady. "Without indulging in conjectures," says Dr. Drake, "I shall direct the attention of the reader to the fact, that the seat of his neuralgic pain is near the part of the brain which the phrenologists regard as the organ of Language, situated immediately behind the globe of the eye." ARTICLE V. PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPEMENTS OF HENRY COBLER MOSELMAN, Who was executed in the city of Lancaster, Pa. for the murder of Lazarus Zellerbach, December 20th, 1839. With remarks by Wm. B. Fahnestock, M. D. History. Henry Cobler Moselman was a German by birth, about thirty years of age, five feet ten inches in height, broad shouldered, stoutly built, and muscular; of a bilious lymphatic temperament-dark brown eyes and black hair. The accounts given of him before he came to this country, are of a doubtful character; and although many unfavourable reports were at one time in circulation, they have passed away with the excitement, and but few are now heard of, but what seem to be borne out by circumstances of, at least, a probable nature. Upon his left arm were discovered several large eschars, which reached from near the shoulder to the elbow, and which were said to have been caused by the teeth of a "man-trap," in which he had been caught, whilst committing some of his robberies. That he was obliged to flec his country, there seems to be little doubt; and the earliest information we have of him in this country, is that which was given of him at his trial by Mrs. Catherine Rowe, from Fell's Point, Baltimore, who testified that he came to her house about thirteen months before in company with his mother, and that, after staying with them all night, they departed for the west. In the months of October and December following, they received two letters from him, directed to their care, for a hired girl in that city. In the first, he stated that he was at work in Ohio, at the depot, and received one dollar and fifty cents wages per day, and requested that if the wages were better in Baltimore, she should let him know, and he would return. The contents of the second were not stated, and witness merely mentioned that they had written him word that the girl had been married. On the morning of the 5th of February, 1839, he was seen in company with Lazarus Zellerbach, about eight miles above Harrisburg, by Mr. Jacob Koch, to whom Zellerbach then stated that he was on his way to Philadelphia, and that Cobler, who was then his companion, intended to accompany him. On the evening of the 7th of February, Cobler arrived in the city of Philadelphia, and put up at the house of Christiana Shauffler. He was dressed very shabbily, and had with him a pedler's pack and a tin box. He opened the pack and offered his merchandise for sale; and when a purchaser was found for a piece of merino, he did not know what price to fix on it, and referred to a tailor who was present to say what it was worth. He sold it for seventy-five cents. Some of his prices were entirely too high and others too low, and it was evident to all present that he was no pedler, and knew nothing about the business. Of his tin box, he said he had lost the key, and not being able to procure one to fit it, broke it open, and when he saw its contents, he seemed frightened, and shut it down imme diately. Being asked from whence he came, he stated that he had come from Lancaster, and that he had traded for a very large watch upon the road. In the course of the evening, he went out and purchased himself several articles of clothing, and next morning left for the city of Baltimore. On the afternoon of the same day, he arrived at the house of Mrs. Rowe, where he had before put up with his mother, when they landed from Germany. He was so much improved in his outward appearance, that Mrs. Rowe did not at first recognise him, he being dressed like a gentlemen, and having with him a pedler's pack and a tin box, containing clothes, shawls, handkerchiefs, and a variety of jewelry. He had also a large pocketbook full of bank notes, and gave various accounts of himself, stating that he came from his mother's, who lived in Ohio, and that he had made all his money by keeping boarders and peddling upon the canal; that he had a store in Philadelphia, and was in partnership with a Jew. Soon after he arrived, he went up stairs, and in the presence of Mrs. Rowe he opened the tin box, and took from it a bundle of papers, which he burnt; three other papers he gave to her, and requested her to keep them for him. One was a Hebrew Almanac, which, after trying to decipher, but in vain, he gave to the children to play with. The second was a pedler's license, which he said he had exchanged with a Jew, the Jew having his and he the Jew's. The third she described as being "a square piece of paper, like a five dollar note, rather narrower, bordered with blue, and written on the inside." The next day he went out with Willman, and had his note exchanged for gold, which, upon returning, he emptied on the table, and after looking at it for some time, put it away. On Monday, two days after, he took boarding with Mrs. Triste, and on Wednesday he gave her several articles to wash, among which was a white flannel shirt, the wristbands of which were "bloody all round." On the 19th of February, he hired Lewis Willman as a servant, and soon after returned in company with him to Philadelphia. On the 25th, he disposed of a parcel of articles to Messrs. Isais Reed & Co. amounting to ninety dollars, for which he received a check, which he afterwards lost, and advertised in the Public Ledger under the name of Henry Cobler. The check was found; and as the advertisement did not state where the person who found the check should call, it was returned to Mr. Reed, but was never afterwards called for by Cobler. The evidence of Willman, which will be found in this paper, will give a history of what followed from the time of his employment until after their arrest. During his confinement in prison, Cobler was generally sullen and reserved; sometimes he would sing; and although evidently ill at ease, he assumed a kind of desperate indifference, together with a duplicity of character, which seemed to baffle all conclusions respecting his true feelings or his sincerity. On the morning of the day upon which he was executed, he seemed to desire his end, and passed most of his time in prayer, and in conversing with those who came to visit him. When led out, he ascended the scaffold with great firmness, and sang a hymn of his own composition, with a loud and clear voice, after which he requested the sheriff to hang him, and protested his innocence to the last moment of his existence. Tape Measurements of the Skull. Circumference around Philoprogenitiveness, Secretiveness, and Individuality, The same around Eventuality, Calliper Measurements of the Skull. From Occipital Spine to Individuality, 66 Eventuality, Benevolence, Reverence, 41% 5 TO 55 5,6 510 Constructiveness to Constructiveness, The skull is of moderate thickness, except in the regions of Destructiveness, Secretiveness, Acquisitiveness, Alimentiveness, Cautiousness, Combativeness, Causality, Self-esteem, Amativeness, Love of Life, Tune, the front part of Benevolence, and the lower part of Philoprogenitiveness, where it is very thin; and if a lighted taper be introduced into the skull, it is quite transparent over the above organs, whilst all the rest are dark, particularly over the regions of Reverence, Conscientiousness, Hope, Marvellousness, Ideality, Constructiveness, Approbativeness, Inhabitiveness, Adhesiveness, the back part of Benevolence, and the upper portion of Philoprogenitive ness. *The above remarks, concerning the thickness of different regions of the skull, involve principles in craniology of the highest importance. Abundant evidence, we believe, can be deduced both from facts and analogy, as well as from the organisation and growth of the skull, to prove that the constant exercise of any |