...increased above the standard of health, while that of the skin is morbidly augmented, particularly in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where there is iittle perspiration. PAIN.—The third local symptom of inflammation we enumerated, was pain....

...fulness as well as the frequency of the pulse increases, and there is a flushing of the face and heat in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the thickness and hardness of the cuticle prevent the perspiration and evaporation which moderate the temperature...

...and nerves. The skin is therefore moveable upon these aponeuroses, excepting in some situations, as in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where it is intimately united to the fasciae by prolongations from the inner surface of the cutis. What,...

...different parts of the body : thus in many situations they are short and straight, while in others, as in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the epidermis is thick, they assume a spiral arrangement. The sebaceous ducts and glands are lined by an...

...different parts of the body: thus in mam" situations they are short and straight, while in others, as in the palms of the hands and soles' of the feet, where the epidermis is thick, they assume a spiral arrangement. The sebaceous ducts and glands are lined by an...

...some not more than jj-^th, and in others from jVth to rjth of an inch. It is thickest in the pnlms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the skin is...active formation of epidermis ; but the difference docs not depend solely on external causes, for it is well marked even in the foetus. Structure. —...

...the skin between the papillaj, the terminal nerve-fibres appear to have a reticulated distribution. In the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the papillae are proportionally very numerous, as many as from 4000 to 5000 of them maybe counted in the...

...sudoriparous gland itself. Mr. Rainey has noticed the fact that the secretion of the sudoriparous glands in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the sebaceous glands are entirely wanting, is of a greasy character ; from this circumstance he draws the...

...different parts of the body: thus, in many situations they are short and straight, while in others, as in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, where the epiderma is thick, they assume a spiral arrangement. The sebiferous ducts are lined by an inversion...

...number and size vary in different regions. They are largest in the groin and armpit, are most numerous in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet (where, as already observed, their orifices may easily be recognised on the summits of the ridges), and fewest...