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Identifier: handphrenologica00lond (find matches)
Title: The hand phrenologically considered: being a glimpse at the relation of the mind with the organisation of the body
Year: 1748 (1740s)
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Subjects: Hand Phrenology
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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, thumb thin and small, skin fineand very vascular, nails narrow and semi-transparent. This type of hand may belooked upon as essentially feminine. It de-notes a highly-sensitive frame, and a deli-cately-organised nervous system. The ner-vous ramifications distributed to the surfaceof the body being covered only by a thinlayer of cuticle or scarf-skin, are easily ex-cited by impressions from without, and asreadily transmit their excitement to the cen-tral organs, thus occasioning a prompt andvivid flow of ideas. (cl) The Artistic Hand of DArpentignyis a variety of this type. It is characterisedby a moderately-developed palm, long taper-ing fingers, very flexible, and a small thumb. Plate 2.
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The SerisitiYe Rand. FORM OF HANDS. J3 It has for its object the worship of materialbeauty, is disposed to view things througha romantic medium, is fond of leisure, ofliberty, and of change; is at once bold andtimid, humble and vain, exalted and de-pressed, enthusiastic and desponding. Thecharms of a quiet, regulated, domestic lifepossess but little attraction for such persons,who, with much originality, have equalfickleness of character. En France nosarmees sont pleines de mains artistiques detout genre; elles leur doivent le caracterede mobilite aventureuse, insouciante, pitto-resque ; cet elan fulgurant et prime sautier,qui les distinguent. Elles saccommodent detout et sont propre a tout. On les enlevepar la parole. (&.) A gradual transition is afforded fromthis to the motive type by means of thespathulate hand, which partakes both ofthe motive and sensitive character. The spathulate hand, when fully deve-loped, is furnished with smooth fingers, witha rounded, cushiony terminat

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