The science of labour and its organization / by Josefa Ioteyko.

  • Ioteyko, Josefa, 1866-1928.
Date:
1919
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    position to use the arm that remains intact. Certain it is, that late training can never attain an equal proficiency to that acquired at an early age. If ambidexterity had been a common practice, those now mutilated in the war would be much more capable of acquiring the required skill with the left arm, having been originally trained by games, gymnastics, drawing, writing, manual work, and even by certain arts and handi¬ crafts. The training of the left hand amongst those maimed in the war, has now become an inevitable necessity and we can only rejoice to see that previous experiments in ambidexterity are so much in favour of such training. It goes without saying, that the left-handed man who is maimed, must, in like manner develop the right arm, but it remains to be shewn under what conditions such training should be carried out. This is what we will now enquire into. To begin with, one remark must be made. We cannot here speak of “ Ambidextrous,” or “ bi-manual ” education, as we generally do. Those on whom the experiments are to be made, have had one arm amputated, and it is a ques¬ tion of how to give the remaining arm the strength and skill necessary to the acquirement of some handicraft.