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Medicine through the ages. Nineteenth-century phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various parts of the brain, as reflected in a person’s skull, determined personality. This set of 60 miniature heads, a reference collection from 1831 (No. 54 supposedly came from a “scientific” person, No. 8 from an “idiot”), belongs to the Science Museum of London. An interactive online exhibition at explores 3,000 years of medical history through 2,500 museum possessions, including Napoleon’s toothbrush, skeletons of feet gnarled by leprosy and the tiny heads. You can search with timelines, by subject or by specific objects. (Don’t miss the artifacts related to medical blunders and superstition.) The Washington Post
