Now we move into the next section after we’ve covered the intro. The pictures are available in Chart1.
Muscles of the Face and Neck – this fine plate is a remarkably realistic and accurate representation of the head and neck, after the outer skin has been removed. It shows the bare skull, together with the admirable and skillful arrangement of the muscles of the face and neck; also the external part of the ear. There are, also, numerous blood — vessels noticed meandering over the parts exposed to view, by means of which this muscular area receives its a plant nutrient blood. The large, broad muscle observed over the four head is the one by which we elevate the brow, and in conjunction with the more orbicular muscle in his scenes surrounding the eye,we can contract the brow, as in “scowling.”
Muscles of the Face — The muscles of the face are those employed to give variety of expression to the countenance. It is through the medium of the small but useful muscles that public speakers can get facial emphasis to their flow of rhetorical eloquence; the tragedian employs them to get dramatic effect to the various characters he impersonates, and the low comedienne and “clown” cultivate them for facial contortions and “guying” characterization. The numerous muscles observed about the neck are those which give elasticity and mobility to the head. It is by means of these muscles that the head can rotate on its axis, then forward, backward, sideways, and pose in the diversified attitudes in various positions it can be made to assume.
Of this next section there are a couple goes full items that are of some interest. One of those as though use of the word tragedian, which surprised me for two reasons:
- Because it was used at all, and too.
- Because my voice recognition program picked it up on the first try.
in addition to links to examples are analogies such as clowns or comedians is somewhat archaic today. I don’t think anyone today” hundred years later would use a similar analogy. However the turn of the century and a time when vaudeville was popular and moving pictures were still a couple decades away, I can see how this may have been a little bit more of a medical marvel.