The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell.

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1833
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The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : William Pickering, 1833.

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xvi,314 pages : illustrations.

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Second edition.

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Refr: Wellcome II, p136; Norman 175 (1st) Note: "Charles Bell was one of the large group of Scottish surgeon-anatomists who left Edinburgh during the 18th century and enriched the medical and scientific life of London." (Haymaker & Schiller: The founders of neurology). A classic work on the hand, dealing with its anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, adaptive importance, etc

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