The Evening Tribune

Brain Cells In the Fingers.

A medical man recently assisted in an autopsy on a person blind from birth, and he sought to discover by scalpel and microscope the secret of the extraordinarily delicate touch the blind man had acquired during life. Sections perhaps a sixteenth of an inch thick were carefully sliced off the inner surfaces of the index and middle fingers of the right hand. Under a high power these showed, instead of a single nerve trunk and artery and vein of the average man a most complex and delicate ramification of nerve filaments, dainty and minute nerve twigs in immense numbers branching from the main system.

Through constant use the finger tips of the blind acquire this unusual development, with more and more perfect performance of function.—Chicago Record.