The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-10-28
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Heca|ls IN France considerable AZ.
leulioa las been raid 10 an examination
Of The criminal elass With reference to
{ Us nnlslraland associated characters.
tics y. Lacasagne has drawn atteh.
tlqn 20 The frequency u ta,teoing among
criminals and tlie violent nature of tho
scene depicted BY them in this yclth-
taIy nuiilaticn The amc writer has
pointed out that criminals as a class,
arr tall. Thus Ia 800 subjects exam
ined by HIM G2S Were taller BY SIX tends
meters than the average, and some bx.
ceeled he normal height By ten and
twenty centimetes. These observations
lwere coroborated by N. Fetrk in Italy.
IN 1889 Dt ManouYrier remarked
TINT among criminals, notoriouSly with
murderen. the Jaw Is more developed
Allan y usuAl and thai while the craitlol
mandibular index normally varies be-
tween ~ alnd;is, among the conyicts
lit atinlus the remarkable number Of
lfi.7. NA Haget and DalIemagnP, in q
Ecomriuille stiidyof the skulls Of assas-
sins ND ordinary persons, have con-
iirmod Che statement that the forward
projection Of the skull Is greater among
The lolmer. They have aIso shown TINT
criminals have . larger facial indet and
o smaller vertical index than the peace
able citizens, but no difference Is sobSerYed
In the cephaEic index.
N. Eager has affirmed the larger
capacity Of the criminal skull over that
Of The usual type, the relative proper
tions being as !, ,5Ss is to 1880. This,
however, has been contradicted by a
number Of observers who claim the re-
verse, but 1t Il suggested that It may be
explained by supposing that the former
examined the crania Of murderers only,
while in the latter studies those Of all
classes were inchded, among which the
incendiaries are said to have small heads.
Mr.. Flesch has said that affections Of the
heart exist among criminals to the ex-
tent Of 20 per cent. the DerSiStance nf
Botals orifiee 10 NOR cent. contrS.
diction Of the vascular system 65 nor
cent. But his researches upon cerebral
Hs has demonstrates q certair otov.
| ism In the cerebral conyulsions already
indicatedby Benedikt AS ior in.tSnce
the medium lobe of ira brain bein1
shaped as AMONG The mammals tbe AN.
aration 81 tbe exIcarian f,ssne N SyIvins
and the formation If an onSrcninn n
DE occipital lobe, Histology has also "a
| defeated certain anomalies i5 the brainS
Of those criminals Wbose sntonsy In, has
been made Thns SnitS has fonHd tho
ni0montation of the nnclenm NJ tbs
tenth seventh and fIfth nsirs IN a ,nmr. mr.
derer's brains also Gol,ii and NsrShi @
have detectsJ the nigmsntation Attn % of the
neryons cells in the brain NJ ! convict
N Mono has er,m;ned tSe banSs 20
criminals and he has discorSrad @ % amons n,
| individuals convicted for murder, among
those Unilty of inilicting wounds a s,rna3
SrSposderspSe r s of ISr~es AND nS sSort hands. .
shIls With thieves tbe freonencv n In limo
and Narrow hands il less consIderaSiS ib
AZ 10 tbe opcstion of tsttoo;no hs And:
thai the ,arrer nnnher N tsttooSJ - ',1,S nS,'
sons r Il among tbs assassins 81 .S and a,aS;I. XII
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mas stndiaS crimipSlity smons % ~; ;nfantS IE
They sysn,ined os0 infonts % Snd i,o' ".no.
riaIiy ian from IN tho hn"sSs ( ~ ~ rof,po Sopo
They found that tho criminal T tvne conId