Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on physiognomy. ... for the promotion and the love of mankind / written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater ; tr. by Thomas Holcroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I bliall now proceed to considcr Mcdicinal Se- niriotics, or llie Signs ot‘ Jlat/ili and Sickiicss.— Not I, but an experienced phvsician ouglit lowrite un thc j)livsiogiioinonical and pathognomonical semeiotica ot‘ lieailb and sickness, and desoribc ibc pliv.siulügical cliaractcr of tlie budy, and its jnujiensilios to tbisor tliat disorder. I am beyond (Icbcriplion ignorant witli respocl to tlio naime ot (lisordfi.s and their signs; still inay J, in conse- tjiifiicc ok thc tcw observalions I havc inadc, dc- clarc, with soine cert.iinty, by icpeatedly exaniin- ing the linn parts and ontlines of the uodies and founlcnaiK’cs ot’ the sick, that il is not ditiicult to prodici wliat are the diseases to whieh the man in hcalth is most liablc. Ot’« hat infinite importance «'ould such phv- siognomonieal semciotics, or piugnostics ot possi- ble or probable disordiTs, be, idundedon the na- ture and tonn ot’ the body ! liovv essential «cre it, eould the [)hysieian say to the healthy, “ Y ou “ miturally have, some time in your lil’e, to expeet “ this or that disorder. 'l'ake tiie neeessary pre • “ eautions against stich or such a disease. The “ virus ot’ the small-pox slumbers iii your bodv, “ and may thus or thns be pnt in motion : thu.s the hectie, thus the intermiitent, and thus the “ putrid fever.” Oh, how worthy, Zimmermaan, woiild a treatisc on'physiognomonieal Diutciuc (or regimen) be of thee ! \\ hoevershall read thisauthor’s «ork on Expc- mvicc, « ill sce Innv eharawteristieally he describes various diseases « hieb ongii\atc in the passions. Home c]Uotati(jns l’ioin this «ork, whieh «ill justit’v iny wi>h,and cbntain the most \ ahiable semeiotical lemaiks, cannot be unaeeeptable to the reader. C 4 “ The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029734_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
