PAGE PREFACE. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF THIS SYSTEM OF GYMNASTICS FOR THE FINGERS AND WRIST 1 CHAP. I. ANATOMY OF THE HAND. ON LIGAMENTS, TENDONS, ETC. 16 II. THE MUSCLES OF THE HAND AND OF THE FINGERS 22 III. EFFECTS OF THIS GYMNASTIC TREATMENT ON THE MUSCLES, LIGAMENTS, AND JOINTS OF THE FINGERS AND THE HAND 29 IV. NEGLECT HITHERTO OF THE HAND AND FINGERS 35 V. THE FINGER-JOINTS ARE THE LEAST EXERCISED, AND THE WEAKEST 39 VI. THE PRINCIPAL DIFFICULTY DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE READING OF MUSIC, BUT IN THE WEAKNESS OF THE FINGERS 41 VII. MUSIC IS THE ART WHICH MAKES THE HIGHEST DEMANDS ON THE MUSCLES OF THE FINGERS. MOVING THE FINGERS UP AND DOWN INSUFFICIENT 44 VIII. ARTISTS AND TEACHERS OF MUSIC 46 IX. FREE GYMNASTIC EXERCISES FOR THE FINGERS AND THUMB 49 X. FREE GYMNASTIC EXERCISES FOR THE THUMB 55 XI. FREE GYMNASTIC EXERCISES FOR THE WRIST 58 XII. MECHANICAL FINGER-EXERCISES 63 XIII. MECHANICAL FINGER-EXERCISES (CONTINUED) 70 XIV. MECHANICAL FINGER-EXERCISES (CONTINUED) 80 XV. BOARD FOR STRETCHING THE MUSCLES, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THUMB AND THE LITTLE FINGER 84 XVI. ON STRINGED INSTRUMENTS IN PARTICULAR. THE WRIST OF THE RIGHT HAND 86 XVII. CONTINUATION 89 XVIII. CONTINUATION. STACCATO 92 XIX. CONCLUDING REMARKS 95 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN OF THIS SYSTEM OF GYMNASTICS FOR THE FINGERS AND WRIST. If any one should desire to know how and in what manner I, as a private individual, came to hit upon these discoveries, I answer simply: