DMIT is a study of fingerprints and their patterns done by scientists and medical experts over 400 years that tell us the connection between our fingerprints and the brain.

• 1684 – Dr. Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712) first presented the Finger Prints, Palms and Souls an Introduction To Dermatoglyphics to the Royal Society.

• 1685 – Bidloo published an anatomical atlas, Anatomia Humani Corporis, with illustrations showing the human figure both in living attitudes and as dissected cadavers.

• 1686 – Dr. Marcello Malphigi (1628-1694) noted his treatise, ridges, spirals, and loops in fingerprints.

• 1788 – C. Mayer was the first to write out basic tenets of fingerprint analysis and theorized that fingerprints were unique.

• 1823 – Joannes Evangelista Purkinji, a physicist and biologist, studied the skin of the human palms and soles and attempted to systemize and also find a relationship between these fingerprints and humankind. He found that the patterns on one’s fingertips and the ridges and lines on one’s prints begin to form around the thirteenth week in the womb.

• 1823 – Dr. Jan Purkinje successfully classified the papillary lines on fingertips into nine types: arch, tented arch, ulna loop, radial loop, peacock’s eye/compound, spiral whorl, elliptical whorl, circular whorl, and double loop/composite.

• 1832 – Dr. Charles Bell (1774-1842) was one of the first physicians to combine the scientific study of neuroanatomy with clinical practice. He published The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design.

• 1880 – Articles written by Professor Henry Faulds and Professor WJ Herschel were published in The Nature journal. These articles recommended the use of fingerprints/Dermatoglyphics as a means to uniquely identify and differentiate mankind.

• 1893 – British anthropologist and cousin of Charles Darwin, Dr. Francis Galton published his book, “Fingerprints”, establishing the individuality and permanence of fingerprints. The book included the first classification system for fingerprints: Arch, Loop, and Whorl.

• 1897 – Harris Hawthorne Wilder was the first American to study Dermatoglyphics. He invented the Main Line Index and studied thinner hypothenar eminencies, zones II, III, and IV.

• 1920 – Elizabeth Wilson, a Columbia University Professor stated the scientific method, research, and application of the statistical methods.

• 1926 – The Father of Dermatoglyphics, Dr. Harold Cummins, M. D and Dr. C. Midlo, M. D together studied all the aspects of fingerprint analysis, from anthropology to genetics and the embryology aspect. In the year 1943, he published the book, Finger Prints, Palms and Soles, which is regarded as the bible in the field of Dermatoglyphics. Thereafter, Dermatoglyphics officially became an area of research and knowledge.

• 1936 – Dr. Harold Cummins and Dr. Charles Midlo partnered up to research the embryo-genesis of skin ridge patterns and concluded that fingerprint patterns actually develop in the womb and are fully formed by the fourth month of the fetal stage.

• 1944 – The Psycho-Analytic Chirologist, Dr. Julius Spier published his book – The Hands of Children where he made several significant discoveries, especially in the area of psycho-sexual development and the diagnosis of imbalances and problems in this area from the patterns on the hands.

• 1950 – Canada’s famous brain surgery professor Banfill (Penfield) published – The Body of all parts of the brain, wherein he also associated the cross-section map, also referred to as finger dermatoglyphics, and close of the association between the brain.

• 1957 – Dr. Walker used the dermal configurations in the diagnosis of mongolism

• 1968 – Sarah Holt in her own piece of work, The Genetics of Dermal Ridges’, a book published in 1968 neatly summarizes her research in the field of dermatoglyphics and the patterns of both the fingers and palm in various people, both normal and congenitally afflicted.

• 1969 – John J. Mulvihill, MD and David W. Smith, MD published The Genesis of Dermatoglyphics which provides the most up-to-date version of how fingerprints form.

• 1970 – USSR, Former Soviet Union. Using Dermatoglyphics in selecting the contestant for the Olympics.  As it turned out, the USSR took home 50 gold medals in 1972 and 125 in 1976.

• 1976 – Schaumann and Alter’s ‘Dermatoglyphics in Medical Disorders’ published. Significant investigations have also been carried out into the dermatoglyphic indicators of congenital heart disease, leukemia, cancer, rubella embryopathy, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, etc. Dermatoglyphics research is being directed into genetic research and the diagnosis of chromosomal defects.

• 1980 – The Chinese carry out research work on human potential, intelligence, and talents in dermatoglyphics and human genome perspective

• 1981 – Professor Roger W Sperry and his research partners were awarded Nobel Prize for Biology for their contribution to the functions of the right brain and left brain as well as the dual brain theory. The research related to the brain then entered its peak at this stage, which is now widely used by scientists from many other fields.

• 1985 – Dr. Chen Yi Mou, Ph.D. From Harvard University first applied the research on Dermatoglyphics Intelligence Theory by Dr. Howard Gardner. He applied it in the educational and brain physiology fields.

• 1986 – Nobel Prize in physiology was awarded to Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini & Dr. Stanley Cohen for discovering the correlation between NGF (Nerve Growth Factor) and EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor).

• 2000 – Dr. Stowens, Chief of Pathology at St Luke’s hospital in New York, was first able to diagnose schizophrenia and leukemia with up to a 90% accuracy. In Germany, Dr. Alexander Rodewald reports he can pinpoint many congenital abnormalities with 90% accuracy.

• 2004 – IBMBS- International Behavioral & Medical Biometrics Society published over 7000 reports on DMIT. Nowadays developed countries like the U.S.A, Russia,  Japan, China, Taiwan, and many more applies DMIT to educational fields, expecting to improve teaching qualities and raise learning efficiency by knowing various learning styles.

Currently, DMIT has been an evolved field of research and application. Such that the diagnosis of some of the illnesses can now be done on the basis of DMIT analysis alone. Several DMIT researchers have claimed that they have a high degree of accuracy in their prognostic ability from the hand features.