String of pearls (a.k.a. ridge dissociation)

Hello all,

I recently read about the 'String of Pearls' formation in Altman's book. From the photos in that book, I couldn't grasp what he meant by String of Pearls.
Can someone please spare a few moments to explain it to me or direct me to a good resource.

Thanks
GP

It's when a skin ridge row or rows of ridges break down and have a dotted look. Like a string of pearls. like ............. rather than ___________

If it's fig. 9.9 in Altman's "The Palmistry Workbook" look at the area under the middle finger and between the middle and ring. Also very noticible in the space between close to the end of head line and up to heart line along side the health line.

what would the 'string of pearl' signify?

bobby32 wrote:what would the 'string of pearl' signify?

Nathanial Altman describes their presence on the hands of people who are as he says neurotic. Mental illness.

I see them on people who are chronically ill and weak - both physically and emotionally, but are still 'functioning' in day to day life.

Hello Upendrasingh,
Here is the illustration from Altman's book that I was referring to:



I've circled the area's where I mentioned. You can see the broken down ridges in many places on this hand. The ridges have become rows of dots or "strings of pearls".

Upendrasingh Bhadoriya wrote:It is clear.You have not blend it.

I'm sorry Upendrasingh, I'm not sure what you mean by "You have not blend it".

I really haven't much more information. Maybe someone else can share more indepth information or research.

I have seen the flow of the rows of ridges disturbed every now and then in people's hands. The people I've seen it on have usually been stressed out over a long period or have chronic illnesses that wear them down physically and emotionally.

Occasionally, I have seen it on people's hands who look strong and healthy. I notice that Altman writes that it's on people that are neurotic. When you do a Google search for "string of pearls" palmistry, you can see his newest book. There it seems he's correlated it to sex offenders. I just read that earlier after I posted.

It would be a good idea to keep that in mind when we come across them in people's palms. Although I don't think I could come right out and ask someone if they had sex offender tendancies.

If it's physical illness related to start - then the breaking down of the ridges might relate to a similar breaking down of the mental capacities in some way - leading to neurosis of some sort. Although when you look up the definition of neurosis, it says it's not physical or organ related.

The term "string of pearls" in regards to the break down of the skin ridges has been around a number of years. I'm pretty sure I read about it prior to Altman's books. I was thinking Lori Reid mentioned them.

(I'm away from my books right now on my laptop)

This link to another part of Altman's book relates more to how I have seen it - stress and poor health:

Another link:

Great document! Thanks for sharing!

I can't find anything in Lori Reid's or any of the other author's books that I thought may have mentioned String of Pearls, so it might have been from Nathaniel's earlier book that I first became aware of the term.

In David Brandon Jones 1981 (1986 US edition) "Practical Palmistry" he has this illustration:


Yes, I forgot about Bagga's book!

Upendrasingh Bhadoriya wrote:Respected Martijn and Pattyji
Namaste
To malformed ridges “String of pearls” analogy is given by Dr. Eugene Scheimann, M.D. and Nathaniel Altman but it is given in book of Noel Jaquin in his book ‘The Hand Speaks- Your Health, Your Sex , Your Life’ for chronically diseases published in 1941.

Namaste Upendrasingh!
What a great collection of prints with diagnosed cases. Does he use the phrase "string of pearls"? I see on page 84 he says "dot like pieces". Thanks for calling my attention to this book, in the process of looking through it for this topic, I came across something else I had been looking for!