The Journal of nervous and mental disease . bo ta•H a CEREBRAL AUTOMATISM. II been rendered inexpressive, reacts upon the physiognomy,which loses at the same moment its former expression. We know that the contraction of the orbicularis palpebra-rum superior is characterized by a transverse corrugation ofthe eyebrows expressive of anger. As soon as we have causedthis to contract in our cataleptic subject, the physiognomyassumes the expression indicated, and at the same time thefists clench, and the arms assume a fixed position of aggres-sion and defence. {Vid. fig. 3.) If the corrugator superci
The Journal of nervous and mental disease . bo ta•H a CEREBRAL AUTOMATISM. II been rendered inexpressive, reacts upon the physiognomy,which loses at the same moment its former expression. We know that the contraction of the orbicularis palpebra-rum superior is characterized by a transverse corrugation ofthe eyebrows expressive of anger. As soon as we have causedthis to contract in our cataleptic subject, the physiognomyassumes the expression indicated, and at the same time thefists clench, and the arms assume a fixed position of aggres-sion and defence. {Vid. fig. 3.) If the corrugator supercilii is caused to contract, pain isdepicted in the physiognomy and in the gesture of thesubject. The same holds true of the zygomaticus major, the muscleof laughing {vid. fig. 4); of the levator communis labii su-perioris alaeque nasi, the muscle of disdain ; and of the de-pressor anguli oris, the muscle of sadness. The same is true of those expressions which, in order tobe complete (according to Duchenne), demand the simul-taneous contra
Size: 1859px × 1343px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectpsychologypathologic
