Just a few weeks before his death in 1828, Franz Joseph Gall, the father of what others would later call phrenology, wrote a letter to an unknown person, presumably a fellow physician. The manuscript describes the case of girl, 19 months of age. The girl’s skull showed marked deformations consistent with what would be called craniosynostosis or Crouzon(’s) syndrome by physicians today. Gall related some clinical features of her case and suggested some treatment options. This case report is particularly interesting because it is almost 200 years old, predates Crouzon’s description of the syndrome by 84 years, and shows that Gall was still involved with treating patients, even in his final year.

1828 年，弗朗兹·约瑟夫·加尔（后来被称为颅相学之父）去世前几周，给一位身份不明的人写了一封信，该人可能是一位医生同事。手稿描述了一名 19 个月大女孩的案例。女孩的头骨显示出明显的变形，符合当今医生所说的颅缝早闭或克鲁松综合征。 Gall 讲述了她的病例的一些临床特征，并提出了一些治疗方案。这份病例报告特别有趣，因为它已有近 200 年的历史，比克鲁宗对该综合征的描述早了 84 年，并且表明即使在他的最后一年，高尔仍然参与治疗患者。