The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred new illustrations, including a chart for the use of practical phrenologists / by O.S. and L.N. Fowler. Rev. by Nelson Sizer.
- Orson S. Fowler
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred new illustrations, including a chart for the use of practical phrenologists / by O.S. and L.N. Fowler. Rev. by Nelson Sizer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the nervous or mental predominant, the same sized Casualty manifests itself in logic, metaphysics, investigation, the orig- ination of ideas, in intellectual clearness and power, etc. And it requires the sharpest eye and clearest head in the examiner to discern the bearings and influences of these temperaments and organic conditions on the intellectual and moral mani- festations. And the mistakes of amateurs, of connoisseurs eA'^en, are more temperamental than phrenological. Still they, are sometimes consequent on health conditions. Thus the' same person in one state of health is irritable, violent, pas- sional, perhaps even sensual and wicked, who in another physical condition is amiable, even-temimred, moral, and good, A given amount of ideality is much more ideal, of language much more expressive, of the affections more affectional, and moral tone more lofty, in combination vath the mental tem- perament than vital. But oiu’ proposed limits do not allow us to extend our observations. Still, the following descrip- tions give the outline, and put inquirers on the track of further- observations. 5.-THE VITAL TEMPERAMENT. This embraces the heart, lungs, stomach, liver, bowels, and that entire system of internal organs which creates life- force. The large end of a good egg is warmer than its other parts, because its vitality resides there; but, this cold, life is extinct. Incubate it a short time, and break the shell at this end, and you will find the heart palpitating and blood-vessels fonned— the yolk furnishing the required nutrition. The vital appara- tus forms fiist, and deposits the material for forming the other portions; is more active during juvenility than the other- parts; sustains the whole animal economy; is the source of all power and energy; creates animal heat; resists cold and heat, disease and death; and re-supplies muscle, brain, and nerve with that life-power expended by their every exertion. It is to the man what fire, fuel, water, and steam are to ma- chinery-the vis animae, the ]>rimum mobile—the first gi-eat pre-requisite of life itself and all its fimctions. Its decided predominance is accompanied by a round head, well developed ^t the base, large Amativeness, Acquisitive-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28141477_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
