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Physiognomy No. 5: The type here shown is terminal dementia of the active form, with occasional exacerbations of excitement. The vestige of mental activity is revealed in a certain resistive determination of countenance, and was further illustrated during the exacerbations by actions.

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Title: A text-book on mental diseases, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kellogg, Theodore Harvey, 1841-1931. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Psychiatry
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Physiognomy No. 4. This was a case of acute melancholia reaching the grade of stupor eventually. Thepainful tension of melancholia is here blended with a certain stuporous fixity of counte-nance, which accords with the actual course of the symptoms. as frowning wrinkles in the upper zone and a continuous grimacingsmile in the lower zone. All coarse brain disease is manifested chiefly in the lower zoneof the face, and this is especially true of unilateral lesions, and insyphilitic, paretic, and organic dementia there are repeated instancesof this fact. The knowledge of insane physiognomy is acquired by the expert SOMATIC SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 229 alienist after long years of close observation of many cases as theypass through the snecessive stages of the disease, and the student
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Physiognomy No. 5. The type here shown is terminal dementia of the active form, with occasional ex-acerbations of excitement. The vestige of mental activity is revealed in a certainresistive determination of countenance, and was further illustrated during the exacerba-tions by actions. of this branch of psychiatric symptomatology must not be contentwith photographs and descriptions, but he should seek occasion tostudy carefully the facial outlines and the peculiar expressions ofmany cases of mental disorder. In the absence of such an opportu-

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