HOW HANDS RELATE TO VARIOUS DISCIPLINES IN HEALTH CARE & ART | PLUS: HANDY GAMES FOR ENTERTAINMENT
INTRODUCTION:
The human hand in early diagnostics
Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) wrote in 1944 the introduction of the work presented by the German chirologist Julius Spier, titled: "The Hands of Children".
QUOTE:
"Chirology [hand reading] is an art which dates back to very ancient times. The ancient physician never hesitated to make use of such
auxiliary systems as chiromancy and astrology for diagnostic and prognostic purposes as is shown, for instance, by the book of Dr. Goclenius who lived at the end of the sixteenth century."
"... The totality-conception of modern biology which is based on the evidence of a host of observations and research does not exclude the possibility that hands, whose shape and functioning are so intimately connected with the psyche, might provide revealing and therefore, interpretable expressions of psychical peculiarity, that is, of the human character. ..."
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