Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise (1902)
Perin, Carl Louis · Chicago : Star publishing co. · leaf 218
his thumb. Doubtless he believed with the Chinesethat no better proof to individual identity is desiredthan the imprint of the ball of the thumb. 220 PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. Meissner says: I have counted in the first phalangeof the volar surface of the first finger of a full grownman one… … THE HAND OF HOLMES, THE MURDERER. 223
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