The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Sir Charles Bell.

  • Charles Bell
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1874
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Credit: The hand : its mechanism and vital endowments, as evincing design, and illustrating the power, wisdom, and goodness of God / by Sir 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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    COJSTTENTS. PREFACE TO FORMER EDITIONS . . . . . . . vii NOTE TO PRESENT EDITION X AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR's RESEARCHES ON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. BY ALEXANDER SHAW xvii CHAPTER I. FA6B INTRODUCTOKY—OBJECT OF THE VOLUME .... 1 Consequence of viewing the Animal Body as Mechanism . . 3 Relations of the Human Body to the surrounding Elements . 7 Complexity of Structure consequent upon these relations . 8 The Systematic Arrangement in an Animal Body implies a more universal design 9 Insensibility to the Provisions for Life and Security a species of ingratitude . . . . . . . . 14 CHAPTER 11. DEFINITION OF THE HAND 18 Conformity of the whole Skeleton to the Extremity . . . 20 The Series of Bones of the Upper Extremity, represented by analogous Bones in all classes of Vertebral Animals , . 22 Fossil Bones exhibit the Extent of the System . . .24 Mistaken Compassion for Animals of uncouth Form . . . 29 The Sloth 30 The Loris 32 Animals suited to the Time of their Existence . . .34 The Crocodile 35 Succession and Grouping of Animals 38