kfalse and a true akin. Yet this is by no
means the only, marvel in store for unscientific readers. They will find it stated that while their right hands are more perfect in the sense of touch than their left hands, the latter are more sensitive as to heat; which may, of course, arise from the left hand, according to the German popular tradition, being the hand of the heart, and therefore being the more fitly invested with the ring of betrothal. The right hand is perhaps the hand of the world, gifted with quickness and penetration, yet callous. This, however, is more or less incidental to the true subject of the work before us, and we must do the author the justice to say that while he interests us with novel and suggestive facts, he acquaints us with many forms of skin disease which are more instructive than pleasant.
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