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Show RIGHT AND LEFT HANDEDNESS. Matter of Physical .Structure, According Accord-ing to an Authority. George M. Gould of Philadelphia says that mentality preceded and created structure. It has been shown that the mechanisms that gle the man external validity, speech and writing, are one-sided. This one-sided differentiation Is progressive throughout through-out life. Rlght-handednoss is partially a matten of rlght-slghtedness. In 97 per cent, of chlldien tho right eye Is the better-seeing eye. If one Is right-handed right-handed the centers for writing and speech mutt be on the left side and the visual centers on the same side. Pathology follows any attempt to Interfere In-terfere with right or left-handedness. Those persons who demand right-handedness right-handedness 'of the left-handed child make him morbid and maladroit. The author gives several vory Interesting cases or tbe lifelong crippling ot the faculties and mechanism of writing resulting from attempts to make a left-handed left-handed person learn to uso the wrong side of his brain for writing. Medical Record. |