Elementary physiology for students / by Alfred T. Schofield.

  • Alfred Taylor Schofield
Date:
1892
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Credit: Elementary physiology for students / by Alfred T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    angle, an arrangement only suited for the erect attitude, and obviously most inconvenient if man went on all fours, when “ he could see and smell nothing but the ground ” (Holden). As it is, his eyes can command the greatest possible range of vision, their scope being only limited on the inner side by the bridge of the nose, when vision is taken up by the fellow-eye. Observe the eyebrows above, keeping the “sweat of the brow” from deluging the eyes. The eyes should, for beauty, be deeply set, prominent eyes being never seen in ancient art. The nose, too, is not placed, as in animals, so as to scent odours in advance, which to them is of the greatest use, but so as to receive odours from below, and especially of all food going into the mouth. The mouth, again, to man is of as much value for ar- ticulation in speaking as Fig. I. — European, Skull showing Facial for eating, and hence the Angle of 75 • prominent, but the cavities within are specially arranged for the re- ception and conduction of sound. Study finally the unique power of e.xpression that lies in the muscles of the face. The science of physiognomy is most valuable and interesting, for undoubtedly these facile muscles get insensibly moulded by the passions and habits of the man, whose character can be fiir better read by the lines round his mouth than by the so-called ‘’expression” of the eye. The ear, the great beauty of which is its small size and perfect lobe, is not made, as in animals, to turn forwards or backwards to catch distant sounds, man having other means
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