The physiognomy of diseases / [George Corfe].

Corfe, George. · 1849 · London : James Nisbet, 1849. · 2 pictures

A medical treatise by George Corfe, published in London by James Nisbet in 1849, on reading diseases from the face and body. Its first picture is a tinted lithograph of a sleeping man with dark hair, head turned on a pillow with eyes closed and lips slightly parted, lit softly against a warm brown ground. The second is a plain line diagram of a circle filled with converging diagonal strokes that narrow to a waist, labelled 'Intestinal Arm'. A designer might take the soft shadowed tonal modelling of the portrait and the rhythmic, tapering hatching of the diagram as models for quiet, diagrammatic imagery.

Signs and Symptoms · Physiognomy

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