Beauty in woman: analysed and classified : with a critical view of the hypotheses of the most eminent writers, painters, and sculptors / by Alexander Walker.
- Alexander Walker
- Date:
- 1892
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Beauty in woman: analysed and classified : with a critical view of the hypotheses of the most eminent writers, painters, and sculptors / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Of women, more especially, it is observed, that they rarely present examples of the lymphatic temperament, unmodified by nervous mobility; whence come extreme vivacity in the sensations with great feebleness, determinations equally pre- cipitate and unsteady, excited imagination and ephemeral tastes, absolute will, etc. The sanguine temperament is similarly combined with the nervous one. Hence the physiologist above quoted says, “ that to the extreme love of pleasure, sanguine men join, when circumstances require it [he should have said, in some cases], great eleva- tion of thought and character, and can bring into action the highest talents in every department: the history of Henry IV., of Mirabeau, and others, proves that.” * The ancients gave the name of bilious, to a temperament in which the sanguineous system is' energetic, the pulse strong, hard and frequent, the sub-cutaneous veins prominent, the development of the liver excessive, the superabundance of bile re- markable, the sensibility easily excited yet capable of dwelling upon one object, the passions violent, the movements abrupt and impetuous, and the character inflexible. This is evidently a very compound temperament, and should never have been classed, any more than the two preceding, with the simple temperaments, the athletic or muscular, the phleg- matic or lymphatic, the sanguine, and the nervous, which I have noticed under the heads to which they belong. In persons of this temperament, the skin is of a yellowish brown, the hair black, the muscles marked, the form harshly expressed. “ Bold in the conception](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28050964_0288.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
