Coombs's standard phrenology : exhibiting the exact phrenological admeasurements of above fifty distinguished and extraordinary personages, of both sexes : with skulls of the various nations of the world : embellished with above 50 engravings, and poetical descriptions of beauty, intellect, and physiognomy : with observations explanatory of the science, adapted to the character of [blank] (1841)
Coombs, F. (Frederick) · Boston : Printed for the author [by] H.L. Devereux, printer · leaf 10
9 The admeasurements of heads are also strikingly illustra-tive of this fact, heing almost invariably found wider from earto ear in destructiveness, in male heads of every description,as illustrated by the outlines of male and female below, beingthat of a violent, passionate man, and a timid female. … Explanation of Lines, Sfc. on next page. No. 1 is the correct drawing of the back-head of a recklessmurderer. No. 2 that of a cowardly Hindoo. The lines ra-diating from the base give the length of the organ 6, or de-structiveness ; the organ 12, or caution; the perpendicular lineof firmness,…
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