New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." (1889)
Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York : Fowler & Wells · leaf 316
f the leg, form thecalf; below, theytaper into a thick ten-don (a) connected withthe hinder extremityof the heel-bone, andcalled the Tendo Achil-les. The name, it needscarcely be said, refersto the tale of Thetisholdino; her son Achil-les by this part whenshe dipped him in theriver Styx. Her hand^… … 310 HANDS AND FEET. sion. We read, accordingly, he was finally killed by a woundin the heeL* The other two muscles (b and c) also descend from the legand terminate in tendons {b and c) which pass, one on eitherside, behind the projections (d and e) which we call respectively the inner and outer…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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