HEAVY BRAINS AND INTELLECT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIX, 7 May 1898, Page 574

HEAVY BRAINS AND INTELLECT.

It is a popular idea that the heavier the brain the higher are the intellectual possibilities of its possessor. A heavy brain is no indication of an intellectual eminence. The average weight of the European brain is from forty-nine ounces to fifty ounces, yet five out of thirty-one lunatics, taken without selection from the post-mortem records, had brains ranging from fifty ounces to fifty-six ounces. The brains of three female lunatics out of twenty-two exceeded fifty ounces. It is. moreover, a fact- that epileptics have usually large brains. — ‘Science Siftings.’