Physiognomy are irascible". The principal promoter of physiognomy in modern times was the Swiss pastor Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) who was briefly a friend of Goethe. Lavater's essays on physiognomy were first published in German in 1772 and gained great popularity. These influential essays were translated into French and English. Lavater found 'confirmation' of his ideas from the English physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682), and the Italian Giambattista Della Porta (1535–1615). Browne in his "Religio Medici" (1643) discusses the possibility of the discernment of inner qualities from the outer appearance of the face, thus: He reaffirmed his physiognomic beliefs in "Christian
Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body placenta in the ground for 7 to 8 years, and it dissolves into a fluid that is as clean as ice. In south China, people blend human placenta with "gāncǎo" 甘草 ""Glycyrrhiza uralensis"; Chinese licorice root", "shēngmá" 升麻 ""Cimicifuga simplex"; bugbane", and other drugs, which they store in a bottle, and bury in the ground for 3 to 5 years. Then they dig it up and use it medicinally. The 52.24 "rénpò" 人魄 "Human ghost (of a hanged person)" medicine refers to Chinese hun and po soul dualism between the "hun" 魂 "spiritual, ethereal, yang soul" that leaves the body