Philosophic chiromancy. Mysteries of the hand revealed and explained: the art of determining, from an inspection of the hands, the person's temperature, appetites, passions, impulses, aspirations, mental endowments, character and tendencies (1879)
Campbell, Robert Allen · Saint Louis, J. W. Campbell & co. · leaf 127
nge in theconstitution. Such diseases also leave an in-dellible record on the vital line. The age at which any sickness or accidentoccurred that has left an unhealed injury, orpermanent effect upon the constitution, (andaccording to the ancient palmisters, the ageat which any sickness or accident… … Vital Line—Marking the Decades of Life. Take a pair of compasses, set the fixedpoint on the middle of the root of the indexfinger as a center, extend the movable pointto the middle of the root of the third finger.Draw the arc of a circle, and mark this dis-tance off on the vital line. That part of…
Palmistry
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