37
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

[Illustration: THE LINES OF THE HAND.]

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.

There are hundreds of facts connected with the hand that people have
rarely, if ever, heard of, and I 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