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The Mixed

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II. The Thumb 127

The Supple Jointed 128

The Firm Jointed 128

The First, Second and Third Phalange 131

III. The Fingers 133

Length of Fingers to one another 133

Smooth Jointed 135

Knotty Jointed 135

IV. The Nails 136

Long Nails 136

Short Nails 137

Flat Nails 138

Their Indications of Disease 139 [Pg xxiv]

V. The Mounts of the Hand 140

VI. The Mount of Mars 144

VII. The Mount of Jupiter 150

VIII. The Mount of Saturn 154

IX. The Mount of the Sun 158

X. The Mount of Mercury 162

XI. The Mount of The Moon 168

XII. The Mount of Venus 173

XIII. Advice to The Student: the Best Means to make Casts or take Impressions of the Hands 178 [Pg xxv]

ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE

Cheiro Frontispiece

The Lines of the Hand 1

Lord Kitchener's Hand 2

PLATE

I. The Three Principal Positions for the Commencement of the Line of Head 11

II. The Line of Head joined to the Line of Life and its Terminations 18

III. The Line of Head separated from the Line of Life 20

IV. Islands on the Line of Head 24

V. More Variations of the Line of Head 27

VI. The Line of Head and Line of Heart running together 29

VII. Double Lines of Head, also Crosses and Squares 32

VIII. The Line of Life and Sections of Influences from the Mounts 37

IX. The Line of Life and its Variations 40

X. The Line of Life and Line of Mars 45

XI. The Line of Destiny and its Modifications 51

XII. The Line of Destiny and its Variations 53

XIII. The Line of Destiny and its Modifications 56

XIV. The Line of Destiny, Islands, and other Signs 59

XV. The Line of Sun and its Modifications 62

[Pg xxvi]

XVI. The Line of Heart and its Variations 68

XVII. The Line of Marriage 74

XVIII. Marriage Lines and Influence Lines which further help in denoting Marriage 78

XIX. The Line of Health 84

XX. The Girdle of Venus. The Ring of Saturn. The Bracelets. The Line of Intuition. The Via Lasciva 89

XXI. Travels, Voyages, Accidents, and Descending Lines from the Mounts 99

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XXII. The Island, the Circle, the Spot, the Grille, the Star, and the Square 102

XXIII. Minor Marks and Signs 105

XXIV. Minor Marks and Signs 108

XXV. The Great Triangle and the Quadrangle 111

XXVI. Times and Dates of Principal Events 113

CHEIROGNOMY ILLUSTRATIONS

I. The Elementary Hand 120

The Square or Useful Hand 120

The Spatulate Hand 120

The Philosophic Hand 120

II. The Conic or Artistic Hand 123

The Psychic Hand 123

The Mixed Hand 123 [Pg xxvii]

III. Thumbs:

The Clubbed Thumb 129

The Supple Jointed Thumb 129

The Firm Jointed Thumb 129

The Waist-Like Thumb 129

The Straight Thumb129

The Elementary Thumb 129

IV. The Fingers: The Smooth 134

The Square 134

The Knotty 134

V. The Nails: Delicacy of Throat 137

Chest and Bronchial 137

Spinal Weakness 137

Weak Action of the Heart 137

Paralysis 137

VI. The Mounts of the Hand: The Mount of Venus 141

The Mount of Mars 141

The Mount of Jupiter 141

The Mount of Saturn 141

The Mount of the Sun 141

The Mount of Mercury 141

The Mount of the Moon 141

THE LINES OF THE HAND. [Pg 1]

Palmistry for All

PART I--PALMISTRY OR CHEIROMANCY CHAPTER I

A BRIEF RESUME OF THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF HANDS THROUGH THE CENTURIES TO THE PRESENT DAY

The success I had during the twenty-five years in which I was connected with this study was, I believe, chiefly owing to the fact that although my principal study was the lines and formation of hands, yet I did not confine myself alone to that particular page in the book of Nature. I endeavoured to study every phase of thought that can throw light on human life; consequently the very ridges

of the skin, the hair found on the hands, all were used as a detective would use a clue to accumulate evidence. I found people were sceptical of such a study only because they had not the subject presented to them in a logical manner.

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There are hundreds of facts connected with the hand that people have rarely, if ever, heard of, and I[Pg 2] think it will not be out of place if I touch on them here. For instance, in regard to what are known as the corpuscles, Meissner, in 1853, proved that these little molecular substances were distributed in a peculiar manner in the hand itself. He found that in the tips of the fingers they were 108 to the square line, with 400 papillae; that they gave forth certain distinct crepitations, or vibrations, and that in the red lines of the

hand they were most numerous and, strange to say, were found in straight individual rows in the lines of the palm. Experiments were made as to these vibrations, and it was proved that, after a little study, one could distinctly detect and recognise the crepitations in relation to each individual. They increased or decreased in every phase of health, thought, or excitement, and were extinct the moment death had mastered its victim. About twenty years later, experiments were made with a man in Paris, who had an abnormally acute sense of sound (Nature's compensation for want of sight, as he had been born blind). In a very short time this man could detect the slightest change or irregularity in these crepitations, and through the changes was able to tell with wonderful accuracy about how old

a person was, and how near they were to illness, and even death.

The study of these corpuscles was also taken up by Sir Charles Bell, who, in 1874, demonstrated that each corpuscle contained the end of a nerve fibre, and was in immediate connection with the brain. This great specialist also demonstrated that every portion of the brain was in touch with the nerves of the hand and more particularly with the corpuscles found in the tips of the fingers and the lines of the hand.

LORD KITCHENER'S HAND.

The detection of criminals by taking impressions[Pg 3] of the tips of the fingers and by thumb marks is now used by the police of almost every country, and thousands of criminals have been tracked down and identified by this means.

To-day, at Scotland Yard, is to be seen almost an entire library now devoted to books on this side of the subject and to the collec-tions that the police have made, and yet, in my short time, I remember how the idea was scoffed at when Monsieur Bertillon and the French police first commenced the detection of criminals by this method. If the ignorant prejudice against a complete study of the hand were overcome, the police would be greatly assisted by studying the lines of the palm, and acquiring a knowledge of what these lines mean, especially as regards mentality and the inclination of the brain in one direction or another.

It is a well-known fact that, even if the skin be burned off the hands or removed by an acid, in a short time the lines will reappear