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Title: Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928 Wentworth, Bert, 1857- joint author
Subjects: Identification
Publisher: Boston, R. G. Badger
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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lem Popular Science Monthly, ) 1903. After Mallory. recorded observation of the finger prints, although something still oldermay at any time be discovered. The first definite mention of the patterns on the balls of the fingerswas made in 1686 by Marcello Malpighi, Professor of Anatomy of theUniversity of Bologna, who spent an active life in investigating all partsof the human body by means of that recently discovered instrument, themicroscope, and thus founded the science of histology. The visitor toBologna is still shown the rooms where he worked and the lecture hallwhere he first expounded to his students the details of the human kidney, * Col. Garrick Mallory, in Tenth Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, Washing-ton, 1888-89, p. 740, Figure 1255. 334 Personal Identification the complicated tubular structure of which he had discovered by meansof his new lenses. His successor, Galvani, discovered, also in the sameroom, that form of electricity which long bore his name, galvanism, and
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Figure 141. Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). Portrait by Tabor, andpresented by Malpighi to the Royal Society of London, where it now is. (FromLocy: Biology and its Makers, by permission of the author.) in the little square in front he now stands, carved in stone, delivering alecture to the passer-by, wildly gesticulating, as was his wont, with armsstretched far apart, and with head and body bent over to his imaginarystudents. And it was doubtless in this spot, under the shadow of the cathedral History of the Subject of Identification 335 of San Petronio, whose archbishop has become the latest pope, BenedictXV, that Malpighi turned his attention to the examination of the hand.He found the palmar surface covered with certain elevated ridgeswhich describe divers figures, and at the ends of the fingers becomedrawn into spirals. Through the middle of the ridges, when examinedwith the microscope, he perceived the open mouths of sweat glands.This was all he wrote at that time, yet the figures

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