Sentence:  And he could recognize , by touch alone , articles which he had handled immediately before , even though they were <WSD>altogether</WSD> unfamiliar to him and could not be identified by him ; that is , he was unaware what kind of objects they were or what their use was . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly')