This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...of the heart, of every delicate, noble, or violent sentiment, we find a most beautiful arrangement of the muscles of the face; we find no strong tendons, as in the wrist, where great force has to be exerted in grasping, very few attachments to the bones below; but the face is covered by a layer of living ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...of the heart, of every delicate, noble, or violent sentiment, we find a most beautiful arrangement of the muscles of the face; we find no strong tendons, as in the wrist, where great force has to be exerted in grasping, very few attachments to the bones below; but the face is covered by a layer of living contractile muscles, with their fibres arranged in every possible direction, circular, direct, oblique, running into one another, capable of the utmost mobility, and instantaneous response to the slightest change of feeling. The countenance was never intended as a mask to the soul, for every provision has been made to render it the faithful image of every changing sentiment. Now, constituting, as the muscles do, the great bulk of the body, they must necessarily require an immense supply of blood, and consequently the largest vessels branch off in every direction to supply the necessary nourishment; and these vessels do not branch off at right angles, as they do to many of the organs of the body, but the fullest and freest communication of blood is secured, by the acute angle which is generally observed in the branching of the muscular blood-vessels. Besides the blood which is called off in such large quantities to the supply of the muscles, there is also an immense. supply of nervous influence, to which I must call particular attention, for it has a most important practical bearing. We do not know what the peculiar fluid or essence conveyed by the nerves to all parts of the body may be, for we cannot demonstrate it as we do the blood, by sight or touch; but it is essential to life, penetrates every part of the body, and is more directly under the control of the mind than any other portion of our frame. This nervous influence has its origin in the...
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