The scientific study of papillary ridges of the hands and feet is credited as the beginning with the work of Joannes Evangelista Purkinje in 1823. William Herschel (1858) was the first to experiment with fingerprints in India .Sir Francis Galton (1892) conducted extensive research on the significance of skin ridge patterns, not only to demonstrate their permanence but also their use as a means of identification.
In 1892, Galton published the book “Fingerprints” and in doing so, significantly advanced the science of
fingerprint identification.
Sir Edward Henry (1893) published the book 'The classification and uses of fingerprints" which established the modern era of finger print identification, which is now the basis for most of the other classification systems.Charles Midlo M D (1929) together with others published one of the most widely referred book "Fingerprints, Palms and soles", a bible in the field of Dermatoglyphics.
Penrose L S (1945), inspired by the works of Cummins and Midlo, conducted his own dermatoglyphic
investigations as a further aspect of his research into Down's syndrome and other congenital medical disorders.
Schaumann and Alter's (1976) published a book 'Dermatoglyphics in Medical disorders' which summarizes the findings of dermatoglyphic patterns in various disease conditions (1). Engler et al (1982) conducted a study on patients with breast cancer and concluded that the presence of six or more whorls on the fingertips of a person provided a high risk for breast cancer.
The current state of medical dermatoglyphics is such, that the diagnosis of some illnesses can now be done on the basis of dermatoglyphic analysis alone and currently, several dermatoglyphic researches claim a very high degree of accuracy in their prognostic ability from the hand features.
Source credits- International Journal of Pharma and Bio-sciences
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