. A text-book on mental diseases, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. ~pe of physiognomy is not uncommon in thepsychoses, and it is not a question here of asymmetry between thetwo sides, but of complete disparity between the upper, middle, andlower zones of the face. This disparity may consist in permanentpassive phases, which are incongruous, or in active differences, such. Physiognomy No. 4. This was a case of acute melancholia reaching the grade of stupor eventually. Thepainful tension of melancholia is here blended with a certain stuporous fixity of counte-nance, which a
. A text-book on mental diseases, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. ~pe of physiognomy is not uncommon in thepsychoses, and it is not a question here of asymmetry between thetwo sides, but of complete disparity between the upper, middle, andlower zones of the face. This disparity may consist in permanentpassive phases, which are incongruous, or in active differences, such. Physiognomy No. 4. This was a case of acute melancholia reaching the grade of stupor eventually. Thepainful tension of melancholia is here blended with a certain stuporous fixity of counte-nance, which accords with the actual course of the symptoms. as frowning wrinkles in the upper zone and a continuous grimacingsmile in the lower zone. All coarse brain disease is manifested chiefly in the lower zoneof the face, and this is especially true of unilateral lesions, and insyphilitic, paretic, and organic dementia there are repeated instancesof this fact. The knowledge of insane physiognomy is acquired by the expert SOMATIC SYMPTOMATOLOGY. 229 alienist after long years of close observation of many cases as theypass through the snecessive stages of the disease, and the student
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