Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — Reading Faces. [ARTICLE]

Reading Faces.

The New York Medical Record in an article entitled “The Face and Its Expression in Diagnosis” is of the opinion that the Sherlock Holmes faculty in the average doctor enables him to read In his patient's face in a moment's observation that which the laboratory or physical examination will be a long time finding out. Going somewhat further the writer says that the physician may have read something in the face of the dog of the patient's household. That at the doctor’s first visit the dog’s face would have shined forth a welcome; at the next day he could read unalloyed gladness at his visit and confidence in him ; at the third visit the dog’s face would wear a dejected look. The wise physician would know what this meant. The family had "changed doctors." .