4f OF TEMPERAMENTS. SECT. XXXI. * a 



fore a defect, not an excellence. The third moflf 

 marked circumftance in this conftitution is, that the 

 extremities, as the hands and feet, or nofe and ears, 

 are liable to become cold and pale in fnuations in 

 refpedt to warmth, where thofe of greater ftrength 

 are not affected. Thofe of this temperament are 

 fubjed to hyfteric aftedions, nervous fevers, hy- 

 drocephalus, fcrophula, and confumption, and to 

 all -other difeafes of debility. 



Thofe, who pofTefs this kind of conititution, are 

 popularly fuppofed to be more irritable than is na- 

 tural, but are in reality lefs fo. This rmftake has 

 arifen from their generally having a greater quick- 

 nefs of pulfe, as explained in Sed. XII. I. 4. XII. 

 3. 5. ; but this frequency of puife is not necelTary 

 to the temperament, like the debility of it. 



Perfons of this temperament are frequently found 

 amongft the fofter fex, and amongft narrow-fhoul- 

 dered men; who are faid to bear labour worfe, and 

 pain better than others. This laft circumftance is 

 fuppofed to have prevented the natives of North 

 America from having been made flaves by the 

 Europeans. They are a narrow mouldered race of 

 people, and will rather expire under the lafh, than 

 be made to labour. Some nations of Aria have 

 fmall hands, as may be feen by the handles of their 

 fcymetars ; which with their narrow fhoulders fhew, 

 that they have not been accuftomed to fo great la- 

 bour with their hands and arms, as the European 

 nations in agriculture, and thofe on the coafts of 

 Africa in fwimming and rowing. Dr. Maningham, 

 a popular accoucheur in the beginning of this cen- 

 tury, obferves in his aphorifms, that broad moul- 

 dered men procreate broad fhouldered children. 

 Now as labour ftrengthens the mufcles employed, 

 and increafes their bulk, it would feem that a few 

 generations of labour or of indolence may in this 



