If anyone will but take the pains, with an indifferent glass, to surrey the palm of his hand very well washed with a ball, he may perceive innumerable little ridges, of equal size and distance, and every where running parallel to each other.

Readings in Natural Philosophy; Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders, of Nature, Of the Pores in the Skin of the Hands and Feet (p. 77)