The homologies of the human skeleton / [Holmes Coote].

  • Coote, Holmes, 1817-1872.
Date:
1849
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    which would be communicated to the body, when the feet strike the ground in jumping, running, &c., is by this means avoided, or at least rendered milder ; and to its elastic properties may be referred that springiness, and light step, which so distin- guishes the progressive movements of the young from those of the old or infirm. The three cuneiform, and the cuboid bones bear a striking resemblance in their arrangement and connections with the second row of the carpal bones, and much more stress would have been laid in earlier works of Anatomy upon this point, had the error been avoided of comparing the patella with the olecranon. But the necessity which m that case followed, of making the tibial side of the leg correspond with the ulnar side of the forearm, exacted a second necessity of comparing the great toe with the little finger instead of with the thumb. The consequence of thus. confounding the outer and the inner side of a limb was to reduce the matter to a state of inextricable confusion. ‘The firmness of both the hand and the foot requires that the two small external digits, less movable than the rest, should be supported upon a solid single piece, which in the carpus is opposed to the os cuneiforme ; and, in the tarsus, to the homotype of the os cuneiforme, viz. the anterior portion of the os calcis.