The wrist is a floating cluster of bones and ligaments threaded ... A pitcher can use the same anatomy to throw a ball at a hundred miles an hour. The hand is so remarkable that the great Scottish ...

Wood Jones has made a notable contribution not only to the literature of human anatomy ... various tissues forming the hand—viz. the skin, nails, fasciæ, bones, muscles, vessels, and nerves ...

as too many bones are missing from the right hand. Using a photo of what historians believe to be Bach’s skeleton, Otte calculated the hand’s size—nearly 8½ inches from wrist to fingertips ...