Anthroponomy, or, Magneto-physiognomico-craniology : a new system on the magnetic constitution of man, as expressed by physiognomy blended with craniology and maintained by moral and physical hygiene, according to the rules of physiology, therapeutics, metaphysics, and present experience, improved from the systems of Messmer, Puységur, Gall, Lavater, Spurzheim, etc., and as established / by J.D.L. Zender.

  • Zender, J. D. L. (Joachim Denis Laurent), 1805-
Date:
1863
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Credit: Anthroponomy, or, Magneto-physiognomico-craniology : a new system on the magnetic constitution of man, as expressed by physiognomy blended with craniology and maintained by moral and physical hygiene, according to the rules of physiology, therapeutics, metaphysics, and present experience, improved from the systems of Messmer, Puységur, Gall, Lavater, Spurzheim, etc., and as established / by J.D.L. Zender. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    because all the external senses were insulated or shut up, being in a negative state or in a stale of irritation and exhaustion, although there Is always a little of that fluid spent for the voluntary motion during sleep. When the brain is sufficiently charged with electricity during the period of six or seven hours, the body awakes, that is to say, the nervous fluid or secretion has reached the extremities of the nerves and the galvanic generation being completed, the spending of that fluid or of the vital action begins with the sensibility and contractility of the nerves with regard to external objects, so that our communication with the physical world is a continual spending or breaking of the current of our electricity. The Sensorium commune is at the aboutissant of the cerebral masses and of the five sensitive organs, ending with the Pineal gland. That gland secretes and excretes probably the electro-nervous fluid, half Spiritualizing it so as to communicate with the soul. Those micro- scopic or infinitely minute atoms of the nervous secretion electrified and polarized, that is, set in motion by the electrical force, represent the images or materials of our ideas, as well as their relations and combi- nations ; they are perceived by the intuitive power of the soul. The soul being as it were in contact with that electrical force, has conscious- ness of those ideas, of their relations and consequences; which existing independently from our mind, but dependently upon our cerebral or- ganization, explains the word perception as the action of attending to or observing one object, judgment as a perception of two objects and of their relation, reflection as a perception of judgments, The soul wills by itself, and immediately its mandates are obeyed by its electric con- tact with the motor nerves which stand ready, as it were, to receive the electrical shock. Chapter 2. Magnetic Phenomena of Man. Having analyzed the constitution of man, as regard to its magnetic qualities, we will now view it as regard to its magnetic phenomena. All beings in the universe bear some relation to each other from God the Almighty, in a descending scale to the lowest creature, or the grain of sand.That scale of relation is maintained by a regular system of ab- sorption, and expansion. God the Creator absorbs them all, and all creatures expand towards him. There is, then, a magnetic action, 1st, among inanimated objects; 2ndly, of man with those objects; 3rdly, of man with animals; 4thly, of man with man ; 5thly, of man with him- self; Gthly, of man with spirits and angels; 7thly, of man with God. $ 1.—Magnetic action among inanimated objects.—We have little to say here for our general subject about that magnetic action among min- erals and metals. It is called mineral magnetism, terrestrial magnetism. The loadstone and iron are the principal objects which show attraction and repulsion, the north pole of the earth exhibit the attraction of magnet, needles—acids and alkalies are the principal tests for chemical affini- ties, composition and decomposition, absorption and expansion. $ 2.—Magnetic action of man with minerals.—Man can be acted npon by a loadstone kept in his hand, or placed on his body, because the loadstone being an absorber and a reservoir of electricity, keeps it ready for use on any body approaching it. Man can again be acted