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

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1834
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Credit: The hand: its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / [Sir Charles Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as the tail in some species is converted to the same purpose, and is as useful an instrument of suspension as any of the-four extremities.* UBS R'lmW The armed extremities of a variety of animals give them great advantages ; but if man pos- sessed any similar provisions, he would forfeit his sovereignty over all. As Galen, long since, observed, “ did man possess the natural armour of * This is a sketch of the Coaita, or Spider Monkey, so called from the extraordinary length of its extremities, and its motions. The tail answers all the purposes of a hand, and the animal throws itself about from branch to branch, sometimes swinging from the foot, sometimes by the fore extremity, but oftener and with a greater reach by the tail. The prehensile part of the tail is covered only with skin, forming an organ of touch, as discrimi- nating as the proper extremities. The Caraya, or Black howling
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