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<h2>Anonymous. [<em>tise on physiognomy</em>. (Netherlands?, ca. 1790)].</h2>
<p>Physiognomy is the science of relating an individual's character, personality, and temperament to the shape of his or her face, head, and/or body. The theories behind it go back to Hippocrates, who believed that physical characteristics of the human body revealed personality traits; Aristotle performed studies on how hair, limbs and facial features predicted personality and temperament. Such theories thrived throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and the noted Girolamo Cardano (1501&ndash;1576) was one of its main proponents. By the 18th century, the study of physiognomy was still taken very seriously as a medical topic, with important additions to the field made by Johann Caspar Lavater (1741&ndash;1801). Franz Josef Gall (1758&ndash;1828) attempted to make its study even more scientific by measuring human and animal craniums to find correlations between skull shape and behavior, founding the field of phrenology.</p>
<p>The author of this fine, manuscript treatise and sketchbook on physiognomy is unknown. The text is written in Dutch and was probably composed in the 1790s; it is possible that it was created as a dissertation by a medical student.</p>
<p><strong>Further Reading:</strong></p>
<p class="pindent">Hagner, M. "Prolegomena to a history of radical brains in the nineteenth century: physiognomics, phrenology, brain anatomy." <a href="https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en&docid=alma99337323406676" target="_blank"><em>Physis Riv Int Stor Sci</em></a>., 1999; 36(2):321-38.</p>
<p class="pindent">Howells, J. G.; and M. L. Osborn. <a href="https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en&docid=alma995951103406676" target="_blank"><em>A reference companion to the history of psychology</em></a>. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984).</p>
<p class="pindent">Jenkinson, J. "Face facts: a history of physiognomy from ancient Mesopotamia to the end of the 19th century." <a href="https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en&docid=alma991305503406676" target="_blank"><em>J Biocommun</em></a>., 1997; 24(3):2-7.</p>
<p class="pindent">An example of the 20th-century clinical literature on physiognomy: Paterson, D. G. <a href="https://catalog.nlm.nih.gov/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01NLM_INST:01NLM_INST&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&lang=en&docid=alma99184493406676" target="_blank"><em>Physique and intellect</em></a>. (New York: The Century Company, 1930).</p>
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