1477 SCOT, Michael [Michael Scotus] (1175 – 1232)
Liber phsionomiae [and other works].
"Composed between 1209 and 1226, the first of the two primary texts discusses human generation — anatomy, physiology, astrology, sexual behavior, conception and the health of the fetus. The second part, the Physiognom…
GMN 10725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12919
1586 PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1536 – 1615)
De humana physiognomonia libri IIII.
Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient “science” of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated.
GMN 150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2735
1772 LAVATER, Johann Caspar (1741 – 1801)
Von der Physiognomik.
Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists. He expanded the above work into Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775-78. This was translated into English by H.…
GMN 154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2771
1839 BAUMGÄRTNER, Karl Heinrich (1798 – 1886)
Physiognomice pathologica – Krankenphysiognomik. Text in quarto; atlas in folio with 72 hand-colored lithographs.
A second edition in octavo format with 80 small plates was published in 1842. Baumgärtner, a pupil of Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin at Heidelberg, taught that it was possible to make a correct diagnosis with …
GMN 10589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12782
1849 CORFE, George
The physiognomy of diseases.
Corfe was Resident Medical Officer at London's Middlesex Hospital, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and author of works on various medical subjects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…
GMN 9814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12002
2001 HARTLEY, Lucy
Physiognomy and the meaning of expression in nineteenth-century culture.
"...explores the concepts of physiognomy and eugenics and raises questions about what are "legitimate" sciences.[2] She describes how "the appeal of physiognomy lay not so much in any of its scientific pretension but …
GMN 9813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12001
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