Their books on phrenology sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

他们关于的书售卖了几十万册。

In those days, many intelligent people were won over by the pseudoscience of phrenology.

当年，很多聪明人都被伪科说服了。

Even Queen Victoria called on the services of a phrenologist.

甚至维多利亚女王也请了家。

Well, it's true there used to be phrenology.

好吧，的确曾经有。

Phrenology was used to justify slavery, colonialism, and the poor treatment of criminals and people with mental health problems.

被用来为奴隶制、殖民主以及恶劣对待罪犯和有精神健康问题的人等行为作出辩解。

And from the middle of the nineteenth century, phrenology began to fall out of favor and eventually into total disrepute.

从十九世纪中叶开始，开始跌下神坛，并最终声名狼藉。

Eventually, phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial contours tell us exactly nothing about what's happening inside the brain.

最终，被驳回作为 崇拜伪科，因为事实证明你的骨轮廓介绍下究竟什么 发生的事情在大脑中。

But while Gall and Spurzheim bathed in the adulation and eventually fell out, by the way, serious scientists started to undermine the claims of phrenology.

但是当加尔和斯珀兹海姆沉浸在崇拜中时，顺便说句，两人最终闹翻，严肃的科家们开始反驳的说法。

She was a subscriber for all the " Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.

她是所有“健康”期刊和骗局的订户；他们被夸大的庄严的无知是呼吸到她的鼻孔。

By palpating the contours on a person's head, a phrenologist could supposedly detect the size of each of these areas in order to deduce whether a person had artistic leanings say or criminal tendencies.

通过触摸个人头部的轮廓，据说家可以检测出每个区域的大小，从而推断出个人是否有艺术倾向或犯罪倾向。