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 137
tation, quarrel-ing and violence. The vital line frequentlytapers and comes to an end before reachingthe wrist, while the material line starts fromthe wrist full and clear, tapering as it as-cends, almost touching, sometimes unitingwith, the vital; thus replacing the lower endof the latter line.… … vital line sending a branch [C] out towardsthe junction of the thumb with the palm onthe east edge of the hand, suggests one easilyduped by fascinating and designing women.A branch [D] leaving the vital line near the THE VITAL LINE. 139 wrist and running off towards the thumb sug-gests dissipation…
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