16. If the thighs of woman be not wider than those of man; because, the width of the female pelvis, and the purposes which it serves, require this.
17. If the size of the thighs be not large, the haunches as it were increasing till they reach their greatest extent at the upper part of the thigh, which anteriorly rises as high as the mons veneris, and if the knees do not approximate.
18. If the arms and the limbs be not relatively short, if they do not taper greatly as they recede from the trunk, and if the hands and feet be not small; because, it is the vital system and the trunk, which is by far the most important part in the female.
19. If the larynx or flute part of the throat be not small; because their magnitude indicates a masculine character.
Defects of the Vital System.
(Defects of the contained vital parts, which have been already implied in enumerating those of the containing locomotive parts, are not again mentioned here, as the intelligent reader can easily supply these and similar omissions.)
1. If, in consequence of marriage taking place before their full growth, women remain always of diminished stature, weak, and pale.
2. If the digestive organs being large rather than active, is inconsistent with the greater activity and less permanence of all the other functions, secretion, gestation, &c., excepted.
3. If the absorbing vessels, being inactive, are insufficient for large secretions.
4. If the circulating vessels, being inactive and imperfectly ramified, leave the skin cold, opaque, and destitute of complexion.