Righthandedness and lefthandedness / with chapters treating of the writing posture, the rule of the road, etc., by George M. Gould, M.D.

  • Gould, George M. (George Milbry), 1848-1922.
Date:
1908
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Righthandedness and lefthandedness / with chapters treating of the writing posture, the rule of the road, etc., by George M. Gould, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    can ignore it; the law must take constant cog¬ nizance of it; mechanics and tool-making are dominated by it; in every evolution or drill of ships or soldiers it is obeyed and kept in mind; and to railroads it dictates wrecks and millions of dollars of expense or savings. It makes or mars the calling, or failure, the success, hap¬ piness, or suffering of far more persons than is usually suspected, and scarcely one of us is unaffected in some way for good or ill by our dextral or sinistral complications, co-ordina¬ tions and inco-ordinations. There are over three million lefthanded persons in our country, and they are either excluded or handicapped in many occupations. But Carlyle’s insoluble “riddle” and the per¬ plexities of hundreds of writers is now easily cleared up. The origin of righthandedness and lefthandedness is plain, and equally so the history of the puzzle of ‘ ‘ the Rule of the Road.7 7 Barbaric custom and war are the source of righthandedness; medicine, including cerebral anatomy and physiology, is able to explain the development of general righthandedness upon which rest all the mysteries of the Rule of the Road.