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 538
artificial means. Scaligerrecords that children are born with compressed temples asa result of the efforts of former generations. The women ofCumana cultivate the long face and high head by compres-sion, as in fig. 3. Perhaps it is from some hereditarytradition in favour of high heads, that, until…
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