The human foot and the human handHumphry, George Murray, Sir
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The human foot and the human hand
Humphry, George Murray, Sir
Foot; Hand
30–32 60 Figures walking.
33–35 62 Position of foot in three stages of a step in walking.
36–38 65 Figures running.
39 86 Bones of the left hind limb of an Elephant.
40 86 Bones of the left hind limb of a Hippopotamus.
41 86 Bones of the left hind limb of a Rhinoceros.
42 86 Bones of the left hind limb of an Ox.
43 86 Bones of the left hind limb of a Horse.
44 89 Hind limb of a Gorilla, showing the length of the
digits, and the strong inner digit diverging from
the others.
45 90 Drawing of stuffed specimen of a Gorilla in the
British Museum.
46 98 Section of a foot, showing the disposition of the fibres
that run from the bones and plantar ligament to
the skin of the sole. At the heel the greater number
of the fibres are seen to run _back_wards from
the heel-bone to the skin. At the end of the
great toe and beneath the ball of the toe they run,
for the most part, _for_wards, from the bones and
plantar ligament, to the skin.
47 103 View of the sole of a foot in its natural state.
48 103 Outline of the sole of a shoe, as commonly made for
a man’s foot.
49 103 Sole of the foot of a girl twenty-two years old, distorted
by the pressure of the shoe, but otherwise
healthy.
50 103 View of the skeleton of a foot so deformed, from
above.
51 105 The proper sole for a shoe laid, for the sake of
comparison, on the symmetrical sole of the ordinary
shape.
52 105 The proper sole pointed at the toes.
THE HUMAN HAND.
Fig. page
53 110 The bones of the arm (_humerus_), of the forearm
(_radius_ and _ulna_, the former is the upper of the
two, the forearm and hand being semi-prone), and
of the hand. The names of the wrist-bones are,
_scaphoid_, _semilunar_ (these two are in contact with
the radius), _cuneiform_ (this is in a line with the
ulna, but separated from it by an interval in
which lies the triangular ligament, see fig. 64,
page 134), _pisiform_ (faintly seen in shadow beneath
the cuneiform), _trapezium_ (supporting the
metacarpal bone of thumb), _trapezoid_ (supporting
the metacarpal bone of fore-finger), _magnum_ (supporting
the metacarpal bone of the middle or
great finger), _unciform_ (supporting the metacarpal
bones of the ring and the little fingers).
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