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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1984.5

JOSEPH SIMMS (1833-1920) An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart Dunn & Wright, printers 1873 238 pages, 4 unnumbered pages 19 cm

Illustrated with over 200 engravings, this book is a guide that outlines “a new and complete analysis and classification of the temperaments or forms of mankind, and designates a great number of Faculties heretofore unrecognized, the Physiognomical Signs of which have Never Before Been Discovered”. Physiognomy is a study which claims that mental or emotional traits, such as temperament, can be indicated by a person’s outward appearance and physical features.

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