Physiognomy illustrated; or, nature's revelations of character. A description of the mental, moral, and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance (1887)
Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 · New York, Murray Hill Publishing Company · leaf 112
^Si ESKLES Skinner, a congenital idiot, being neitlier epileptic, rickety,nor hydrocephalic, yet he has the boldest, widest, and highest foreheadthe author ever saw on a human being, his head immediately above theeyebrows and the tops of the ears has the enormous horizontal circum-ference of 2Qi… … THE BRAIN AND NERVE FORM. Among all the forms of the human system, the Brain and Nerve form is the most important. To the rest it sustains the relation of master, for to it all others are subservient. Or if we compare the human system to a family, the brain may be said to be the husband, the…
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