. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ection with traces of oak carefully these two one was the skeleton of a delicate woman, the other that ofa moderately robust man. There was little doubt that these latter werethe bones of the celebrated musician, but, in order to remove the lasttrace of doubt the bones were passed over to the anatomist, Wilhelm His, *(The multiplicity of form in the skeletonized bones of the face is so great thateach [skull] displays a definite physiognomy; they are just as different from one anotheras are th
. Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead. ection with traces of oak carefully these two one was the skeleton of a delicate woman, the other that ofa moderately robust man. There was little doubt that these latter werethe bones of the celebrated musician, but, in order to remove the lasttrace of doubt the bones were passed over to the anatomist, Wilhelm His, *(The multiplicity of form in the skeletonized bones of the face is so great thateach [skull] displays a definite physiognomy; they are just as different from one anotheras are the faces of the living.) 96 Restoration of the Face 97 of the University there, with instructions to see how well they, especiallythe skull, corresponded with the extant portraits, busts, and traditionaldescriptions. Basing his work upon the previous investigation of thesupposed skull of Schiller, undertaken some twelve years before by theanthropologist Welcker, His turned his first attention, not to the skull,but to his dissecting-room subjects, to see how deeply the bones of the face. Figure 21. Reconstruction of the face of the musi-cian, Johann Sebastian Bach, built directly upon theskull by the sculptor, Seffner, in accordance with measure-ments made upon the faces of several male bodies bythe anatomist, Prof. Wm. His of Leipzig. {After His.) were covered by the soft parts at various points, and if this depth variedvery much in different individuals. In this way he studied the bodiesof twenty-four male suicides, between the ages of 17 and 72, employingas a means of measuring the thickness of the soft parts a sewing needleset in a handle, and bearing a small rubber disc. The needle was welloiled and pushed through the flesh at the spot selected until it struck thesurface of the bone, the disc retaining the measure of the depth after the 98 Personal Identification withdrawal of the needle. He selected and measured fifteen points ineach subject, nine median, along the profile,
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