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be expressive, so as to be impressed by their meaning 

 and significance. 



II. " Small parts contrasted with large parts." 

 The significance of a shoulder movement differs 

 from that of a finger movement ; and a movement 

 of the eyes in the head differs in signification from 

 a movement of the skull (see p. 189.) 



III. " Consider the different relative postures seen 

 in the large, and small joints." In a quiet, even 

 action of the different parts of the brain and mind, 

 there would probably be a similar condition of all 

 joints; moderate flexion of all parts is the condition 

 seen in rest and in sleep. A departure from such 

 condition is therefore noteworthy and expressive. 



IV. "Collateral differentiation." Consider the 

 relative condition of posture in collateral parts, 

 whether it be similar in all the fingers, etc. Pro- 

 bably a certain amount of difference in posture, or 

 movements of the fingers, is highly expressive of 

 brain conditions it may indicate mind or absence 

 of mind. Look at the hand postures of brain 

 disease in Fig. 16, p. 130. It is the different postures 

 of fingers that makes them look like " hands gone 

 mad." 



When a nervous hand has all the knuckles over- 

 bent, the expression of nervousness is greater than 

 when only some of them are over-extended with 

 the wrist flexion, as seen in the seated figures in 

 Fig. 35, p. 300. 



V. " Symmetry." This term, as applied in art 

 literature and description, is usually employed to 

 indicate that the form of the body is alike on the 



