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f ace Postures due to reflex action Spontaneous postures 

 Fallacies Classification and analysis of postures Coin- 

 cident postures Symmetry Postures in art Postures 

 in animals Postures in plants Summary 140 



CHAPTER IX. 



POSTURES OF THE UPPER EXTREMITY. 



Method of examination Anatomy The convulsive hand 

 contrasted with the hand in fright The feeble hand and 

 the hand in rest The straight extended hand, normal 

 Application of the principles of analysis Straight ex- 

 tended hand with the thumb drooped The nervous hand, 

 seen in art Energetic' hand the antithesis of the nervous 

 hand Table giving analysis of postures, and application 



of the principles Principles of analysis Anatomical 



analysis Small parts contrasted with large parts Inter- 

 differentiation Collateral differentiation Symmetry 

 Excitation of weak centres General excitement or 

 weakness Analogy Antithesis Fallacies Methods of 

 determining whether a posture is the outcome of the 

 spontaneous action of the nerve-centres ... ... 154 



CHAPTER X. 



EXPRESSION IN THE HEAD. 



Positions and movements of the head defined Flexion the 

 only symmetrical movement Action of light in causing 

 head movements ; varying effect of such stimulus in 

 different brain conditions A weak posture Effect of 

 gravity The head usually free Application of the 

 principles of analysis to head postures Movements 

 of the jaw Physiognomy, or certain forms of the head 

 Summary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 182 



CHAPTER XI. 



EXPRESSION IN THE HUMAN FACE. 



The face as an index of the mind Definition of the face ; 

 its structure Facial muscles and their nerve supply ; 

 the sympathetic nerve Form, colour, and mobile con- 



