RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. "Fear" Ch & "Preliminary Chapt". CUL-DAR189.80. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR189 contains material for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions.


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"Fear" Ch & "Preliminary Chapt" —

[In margin:] Huxley Ch says strongly vaso-motor systems.

Heart beats rapidly & palpitate or knock against the ribs that — palpitate; but its action seem to have in some manner disturbed, as it does not drive the blood to the surface of the skin as with to its [illeg]action under anger in same manner & generally & came as under anger. On the [illeg] the skin generally instantly al at once becomes pale in the same a we see in in the case of [illeg] faintness. This paleness however, is probably probable the result a chief part the result of the vaso-motor action being affected & causing by almost to small arteries on the skin contract for the skin surface of body otherwise always much affected by fear as shown by the cold perspiration — erection of the hair & shivering of the surface, — which affects do not follow from faintness or failing heart-action—

[Expression, p. 290.]


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