Nasology

Notes on Noses, front-page picture

Nasology: Or Hints Towards a Classification of Noses[1] (reissued as Notes on Noses) was a 1848 book published in London under the authorship of Eden Warwick, pen name of a George Jabet, an elaborate parody on phrenology, 282 pages thick. There were several editions of the book in the mid-19th century,[2] and it was taken seriously, in press and among doctors.

  1. ^ Nasology at Goodreads
  2. ^ "PHRENOLOGY CONTINUES ON", from the exhibit ""TALKING HEADS" on the history of phrenology, Center of the History of Medicine, Harvard Countway Library