phrenologist

From phrenology +‎ -ist.

phrenologist (plural phrenologists)

1. An adherent or practitioner of phrenology.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 112:

     The phrenologist, who regulates heart and mind by undulations of the skull, has another system.

   • 2020 October 5, Paul Turnbull, “Thinking About Craniometry- The Racial Turn”, in Paul Turnbull‎^[1]:

     One significance weakness of phrenology in the eyes of most anatomists, as Anne Harrington has shown, was that the brain comprised two structurally identical cerebral hemispheres, separated by a longitudinal fissure, whereas phrenologists held that the material sub-stratum of various mental faculties was located in only one hemisphere, and not its twin.

   • 2023 November 17, Kendra Cherry, “How a Phrenology Head Was Traditionally Used”, in Verywell Mind‎^[2]:

     During a skull reading, a phrenologist would measure and carefully feel a person’s head.

• cranioscopist

• nephrologist