It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 23rd-most populous of the 50 United States.
Nosology (from Ancient Greek Î½ÏÏÎ¿Ï (nosos) , meaning disease, and - Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î± (-logia) , meaning study of-) is a branch of medicine that deals with classification of diseases.homas Sydenham 's work in the late 17th century might also be considered a nosology. In the 19th century, Emil Kraepelin and then Jacques Bertillon developed their own nosologies. Bertillon's work, classifying causes of death, was a precursor of the modern code system, the International Classification of Diseases.
phrenology (cranioscopy) Phrenology is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person's character and mental capacity. This pseudoscience is based on the false assumption that mental faculties are located in brain organs on the surface of the brain and can be detected by visible inspection of the skull.