An attempt to establish physiognomy upon scientific principles.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1817
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Credit: An attempt to establish physiognomy upon scientific principles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    their very antagonists; but at present we have to view them only in their capacity of elevating the eyebrows. The frontal muscles, then, since they draw the eyebrows from the eye, must be considered negative.. The two muscular slips which descend from the frontal muscles to the nasal bones, draw the nasal ends of the eyebrows down upon the nose, and form a check upon the frontal mus- cles, and a security, that the eyebrows shall at no time be drawn out of the reach of their duty. This check is the more necessary, as the superciliary muscles oppose the frontal only obliquely. The superciliary muscles or corru- gators, arise from about the junction of the na- sal and frontal bones, take a sweep along the superciliary ridge to about its middle, and in passing along lay hold of the frontal muscles, and of the adipose substance and skin of the eyebrows, and have the effect of lowering the eyebrows upon the eye, of making the eyebrows approach each other, of drawing down their na- sal extremities, and of corrugating the skin above the nose. The upper division of the orbicular