How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.

  • Samuel R. Wells
Date:
1890
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Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    power gained with the utmost economy of space; for it io a demon- strated fact, that in proportion to the number and depth of these con- vohitions is the mental force. The mind's revolvings, as Wilkinson a I beautifully expresses it, are here represented / ^2 iu moving spirals, and the subtile insinuation of ^'^ ^ thought, whose path is through all things, issuey p--^ with power from the form of cerebral screws. Y— ^ They print their shape and make themselvcB __ ^- ■; room on the inside of t4ie skull, and are the most m^'^^^l^^^^^ irresistible things in the human world. 1-^73^^^^V- The cerebellum lies underneath the posterior '^^^^^■^^^^ ti^lf of the cerebrum, and is about one-eighth the ^j/i^^^^^^> ^^^^ ®^ ^^^^ latter organ. It is divided into lobes W/il ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ lobules, and consists of a gray and a white ^^ substance, like the cerebrum, but is not convo- ^^ ; luted on the surface like the cerebrum ; the gray ^^ matter screwhat darker than that of the ceru- 5^^ brum occupies the surface of the cerebellum, the /^v^ white being interiorly disposed. 0^^. Extending from the base of the brain to the ^T^'^A ^ atlas or bony pivot on M^hicli the head rests^ yuAw^^ is the medulla oblongata. It is conical in 4( Mu^ shape, and may be considered as merely the ^r^li^>i head or beginning of the spinal cord, which /mM\ continues it, and, in fact, extends the brain down /«M1^ the vertical canal, and by means of the nerves $^~J^ wdiich it gives off, and which pass through ■■ ^ notches between the vertebrae, connects it with every part of the body. There are generally reckoned eleven pairs of nerves arising from the * ' '^ brain, and thirty-one from the spinal marrow. Spinal Cord and It is thus seen that the whole nervous apparatus Nerves.* -^^ included in the mental system, and that the Drain, as the organ of the overruling mind should be, as it unquestion- ably is, is omnipresent in the human body. Now, as is the soul which is incarnate in it, so is the brain in texture, size, and configuration ; and as is the brain, so is its bony casement, the cranium, on which may be read, in general forms and special eleva- tions and depressions, and with unerring certainty, a correct outline of the intellectual and moral character of the man. * a. The brain, h. Cerebellnm. /. Me.lulla oblonorata. r/, g. Nerves distributed to the arms, k, Tc. Great sciatic nerve, dis^tribiited to the lower limbs. /. Dorsal nerve. n. Lumbar nerve, ni. Plexus of cervical nerves. 1. Olfactorj'nerve. 2. Optic nerve. 3. 4, 5, 6. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth nerves. 7. Portio dura of the seventh nerv« %~ Auditory nerve an(^ P{\r vagnffi, % Hypoglo^g^l B^We.
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