Revelations of the hand. A scientific study of the shape and markings of the hand, as an index to character, disease, and tendencies, with explanatory illustrations (1900)
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. [from old catalog] · New York, Chicago [etc.] G. A. Wahlgreen · leaf 62
will not brook restraint or opposition; one which will goto extremes in its independence. When the thumb is unevenly balanced, one phalange beingin excess, it naturally denotes an excess of the characteristicswhich that phalange represents. Thus when the first phalange isextremely long in… … PLATE 9—The Thumbs. The Thumb. 61 in execution. He lacks the determination and continuity ofpurpose necessary to carry out his clever ideas. When the third phalange, the mount of Venus, is far inexcess of the first and second phalanges, the person will beruled almost wholly by his desires,…
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