An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart (1873) (14778829335)

Identifier: originalillustra00simm (find matches)
Title: An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Simms, Joseph, 1833-1920 Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Physiognomy
Publisher: Glasgow : Dunn & Wright, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ce. 2. Your skeleton is the most insignificant part of your whole body.Ossification was a long time in completing its work in your system;hence you are not very persistent, and you are liable to softness of thebones or ^^MoUitles Ossium.^^ 3. You are extremely highwrought and your bones are full of gelatine,which gives them and you wonderful elasticity, but you sadly lack thephosphates and also the carbonate of lime which would make you morestable and reliable. 4. Yours is a small and finely moulded form, and to you the coarsedrudgeries of life are distasteful; you are liable to rickets, or bonesoftening, because the secretory organs of your system do not furnish asufficiency of earthy material. 5. The bones of your structure are not very large; hence your grace-fulness is greater than your endurance. 6. Your bones are fine and abound in organic matter and are almostfree from anything earthy or inorganic. You may be active, but you arenot capable of great projects or continued effort.
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Osseous or Bony Form small.Charles Stratton, Tom Thumb.About three feet in height. Osseous or Bony Form large. Abraham Lincoln. Height about six feet six inches. 15 16 OSSEOUS OR BONY rOR5I. 7. Your bones are not large, but are sufficiently enveloped in muscleand adipose tissue to give you roundness. Such was Oviedo, the Spaniard,as described by Washington Irving, and the famous historian, Prescott. 8. The Osseous structure of your organization is not excessive neitheris it deficient; you are boniform in this respect. 9. You are neither too tall nor too short to use your framework withease. Should occasion demand it, you can endure grief, trouble, priva-tion, hardship, exposure, and severe physical trials quite well, as didyour prototype, Agamemnon. 10. You start slowly in the morning and may be slow towards night,but you are not easily exhausted, being recuperative and singularlypositive,—in reality a Diogenes. 11. You have powerful bones and framework, but want freedom andease of