The right hand: left-handedness / [Sir Daniel Wilson].

  • Wilson, Daniel, Sir, 1816-1892.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The right hand: left-handedness / [Sir Daniel Wilson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The following treatise includes data originally accumulated in a series of papers communi- cated to the Canadian Institute and the Royal Society of Canada, aiming at determining the cause of Left-handedness by a review of its history in its archaeological, philological, and physiological aspects. In revising the materials thus accumulated in illustration of the subject, with a view to their publication in a connected form, the results of later investigation have been embodied here, not only with the aim of tracing Left-handedness to its true source, and thereby proving the folly of persistently