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

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1860
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Credit: The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER VIII. PAGE Of the Senses generally 135 CHAPTER IX. Op the Muscular Sense 147 CHAPTER X. The Hand not the Source of Ingenuity, but adapted to Man's Superiority 160 APPENDIX—ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS. The Mechanical Properties of the Animal Body Considered 175 Of the Solid Structure of Animal Bodies — Substitutes for the True Skeleton ] 82 On the Position of the Head of Animals, and its Relation to the Spine ; to illustrate the Proposition, that all parts of the Skeleton are correlated, in adaptation to their Functions . 203 Imaginary Animals 227 Appropriate Sensibilities induce Combined Muscular Ac- tions, for the Protection of the Vital Organs . . 230 Comparison of the Eye with the Hand 243