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"If you mean pronated in relation to the arm, that is impossible, for the position of the egg-patches shows clearly that the bones of the arm were lying in the position of supination. Thus the dorsal surface of the arm and the palmar surface of the hand respectively were uppermost, which is an anatomical impossibility so long as the hand is attached to the arm."
"Well, look at your drawings. The egg-patches are on the dorsal surface of the scapula, the humerus, and the bones of the fore-arm. But here you have shown six of the bones of the hand: two metacarpals, the os magnum, and three phalanges; and they all have egg-patches on the palmar surface. Therefore the hand was lying palm upwards." "But the hand may have been pronated."
But you don't mean that these egg-patches and worm-tubes appeared to you to have no significance at all?" "Oh, of course, they show the position in which the bones were lying." "Exactly. The arm was lying, fully extended, with the dorsal side uppermost.
"Well, look at your drawings. The egg-patches are on the dorsal surface of the scapula, the humerus, and the bones of the fore-arm. But here you have shown six of the bones of the hand: two metacarpals, the os magnum, and three phalanges; and they all have egg-patches on the palmar surface. Therefore the hand was lying palm upward." "But the hand may have been pronated."
"If you mean pronated in relation to the arm, that is impossible, for the position of the egg-patches shows clearly that the bones of the arm were lying in the position of supination. Thus the dorsal surface of the arm and the palmar surface of the hand respectively were uppermost, which is an anatomical impossibility so long as the hand is attached to the arm."
On the page that contained my sketches of the Sidcup arm, showing the distribution of the snails' eggs on the bones, he lingered with a faint smile that made me turn hot and red. "Those sketches look rather footy," I said; "but I had to put something in my notebook." "You did not attach any importance, then, to the facts that they illustrated?" "No. The egg-patches were there, so I noted the fact.
But we also learn from these egg-patches that the hand had been separated from the arm before it was thrown into the pond; and there is something very remarkable in that." I leaned over his shoulder and gazed at my sketches, amazed at the rapidity with which he had reconstructed the limb from my rough drawings of the individual bones. "I don't quite see how you arrived at it, though," I said.
"But might not the hand have become detached after lying in the pond for some time?" "No. It could not have been detached until the ligaments had decayed, and if it had been separated after the decay of the soft parts, the bones would have been thrown into disorder. But the egg-patches are all on the palmar surface, showing that the bones were still in their normal relative positions.
But you don't mean that these egg-patches and worm-tubes appeared to you to have no significance at all?" "Oh, of course, they show the position in which the bones were lying." "Exactly. The arm was lying, fully extended, with the dorsal side uppermost. There is nothing remarkable in that.
On the page that contained my sketches of the Sidcup arm, showing the distribution of the snails' eggs on the bones, he lingered with a faint smile that made me turn hot and red. "Those sketches look rather footy," I said; "but I had to put something in my note-book." "You didn't attach any importance, then, to the facts that they illustrated?" "No. The egg-patches were there, so I noted the fact.
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