New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . in chills, in spasms, exhaus-tion, in sickness of the stomach, in syncope. A deadly cold-ness in cholera, also in violent hysterical paroxysms. In in-flammation of the lungs, coldness of the face is a bad sign ofcommencing suppuration. Sudden coldness of the face inscarlet fever indicates the near approach of death. We could extend the subject and give the physiognomicalsigns of pregnancy, of impotency, of virility, of imbecility,and of other normal an
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . in chills, in spasms, exhaus-tion, in sickness of the stomach, in syncope. A deadly cold-ness in cholera, also in violent hysterical paroxysms. In in-flammation of the lungs, coldness of the face is a bad sign ofcommencing suppuration. Sudden coldness of the face inscarlet fever indicates the near approach of death. We could extend the subject and give the physiognomicalsigns of pregnancy, of impotency, of virility, of imbecility,and of other normal and abnormal conditions ; but this willsuffice to put the reader on the track of personal physician ought to be an expert physiognomist.* ?^ Cabanis, speaking of insanity, declares that one is unfit to practicethe profession if he can not discern in the features or looks of his patientthe signs of a disordered mind, and many others make high pretensionsto this divine art. Fonblanque relies much on a peculiar cast of coun-tenance. Dr. Cox says, the expression of countenance furnishes aninfallible proof of mental 3t^- Lady Morgan. XXXI. CHANGES OF COUNTENANCE, Shes never twice the same;And changes flash across her faceWith every changing mood.—Ajjon. T^HE fact that certain per-senators of character,like Dr. Valentine, Yan-kee Hill, Mr. Alfred Bur-nett, and Miss EmmaStanley, have been ableto so metamorphosethem-selves that they haveseemed literally almostall things to all men,is often quoted as an ar-gument against the valueif not* the truth of Phys-iognomy. We will placebefore the reader a con-cise statement of the ob- Fig. 781.—Emma Stanley.* jection SUCh caSCS are supposed to suggest and illustrate, with a portrait of MissStanley and representations of some of the characters she sosuccessfully personates. The cuts will speak for objector says: If one and the same face be capable •• Miss Emma Stanley is an Englishv/oman w^ho comme
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