The health resorts of the Canary Islands in their climatological and medical aspects.
- Taylor, John Cleasby.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health resorts of the Canary Islands in their climatological and medical aspects. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![9] Number. 60 49 U 95 88 84 16 27 Type of skull. Spanish Basques . Guanches, TencrifTe Troglodytes de la Marne (polished stone) .... Peruvians .... Round barrow skulls of Britain Auvergnians .... Croats, Slavs, Poles Ligurian, Disentis type Negroes, west coast of Africa Hottentots .... Chinese .... Indices. Cephalic Height. Nasal. Orbital. Gnathic. 77-4 83-9 9t 78-0 71-0 47'o* 76-0 f> 78-0 » 78-7 50-2 93-1 Prog. ? 81-0 Prog. 84-9 738 46'l 86-5 *> 83'5 84-3 99 86-5 99 72-4 73'4 54-7 85-4 99 73-4 56-3 83-6 99 83-5 77-2 48-5 93-8 99 The dolicocephalic-ortliognathic type is distinctive of an ancient race who, in pi'eMstoric time, inhabited western Europe and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. They were, for the most part, troglodytes, living in caves, leading a nomadic life, unacquainted with the use of metals, and were succeeded in the history of races by a stronger, more brachy- cephalic, more prognathic people—the remote ancestors of the old Celtic type of race. This dolicocephalic race origin- ally inhabited Belgium, France, Spain, and were identical with the long barrow people of Britain who were contempo- raneous with the polished stone or neolithic period; they are now included under the generic term of the Iberian race. Eemains of this Iberian race are found not only in these countries, but also in Corsica, Sardinia, southern Italy^ and Sicily. Old writers like Seneca state that Corsica was peopled by the Ligurians and Iberians. Pausanias wrote that the Sardinians were Lybians, a people whose existing' representatives are the Berbers. From Thucydides and Ephoros it is gathered that the oldest inhabitants of Sicily were Iberians. Remains of this same race have been found in the excavations at Hipparlic by Schliemann underlying the Hellenic remains, they were therefore a pre-Hellenic race which was overwhelmed by a stronger brachycephalic one. * Topinard gives this index as 44'2.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24758644_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
