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v PATTERNS : THEIR OUTLINES AND CORES 8 5 subsequent writers, some of whom there is reason to suspect never saw it, but contented themselves with quoting a very small portion at second-hand. No copy of the pamphlet existed in any public medical library in England, nor in any private one so far as I could learn ; neither could I get a sight of it at some important continental libraries. One copy was known of it in America. The very zealous Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons was so good as to take much pains at my instance, to procure one : his zeal was happily and unexpectedly rewarded by success, and the copy is now securely lodged in the library of the College. The Title Commentatio de Examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei quam pro loco in gratioso medicorum ordine rite obtinendo die Dec. 22, 1823. H. X. L. C. publice defendit Johannes Evangelista Purkenj e, Med. doctor, Phys. et Path. Professor publicus ordinarius des. Assumto socio Guilielmo Kraus Medicinae studioso. Translation, p. 42. Our attention is next engaged by the wonderful arrangement and curving of the minute furrows connected with the organ of touch 1 on the inner surfaces of the hand and foot, 1 The Latin is obscure. ~~ Mira vallecularum tangentium in interna parte manus pedisque . . . dispositio flexuraque attentionem . in se trahit." There are three ways of translating " tangentium," and none of them makes good sense. In the index of prints he uses the phrase " vallecularum tactui." It would seem that he looked upon the furrows, and not the ridges, as the special seat of touch.
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