RIGHT AND LEFT HAND.

Dr. Zinchinelli, of Padua, in an essay “On the Reasons why People use

the Right Hand in preference to the Left,” will not allow custom or

imitation to be the cause. He affirms, that the left arm cannot be in

violent and continued motion without causing pain in the left side,

because there is the seat of the heart and of the arterial system; and

that, therefore, Nature herself compels man to make use of the right

hand.

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