Charlatanism Collection

Phrenology bust. Phrenology was a popular pseudoscience of the nineteenth century. The basis for the theory lay in a misplaced belief that a persons character

India has no lack of street entertainers; jugglers, acrobats and numerous followers of charlatanism may be met with at
5315096 India has no lack of street entertainers; jugglers, acrobats and numerous followers of charlatanism may be met with at every corner by Unknown photographer

Mesmers Baquet
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Viennese physician and hypnotist who claimed to be able to cure the sick by using animal magnetism", later known as mesmerism

Phrenology. Computer artwork of the side of a head, with the skull divided into numbered regions, consistent with the nineteenth century pseudoscientific practice of phrenology

Phrenology busts, side view. Phrenology was a popular pseudoscience of the nineteenth century. The basis for the theory lay in a misplaced belief that a persons character

Diagram used in palmistry, 16th century
Palmistry. 16th century woodcut illustration showing cardinal lines and points for palmistry. Palmistry, or chiromency, is the alleged ability to foresee the future of an individual from the crease

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