The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 10: Comprising Ten Volumes on the Year's Progress in Medicine and Surgery, Nervous and Mental Disease Of the wrist and simultaneous extension and separation (1) Interstate Med. Jour February, 1912, Of all the digits. In certain cases this movement occurs slowly, and the resulting attitude is maintained for a few moments while the stimulus is continued, in other cases, it Occurs very quickly and sharply, even Occa sionally with observable nervous tremor. In addition to this movement there is frequently, if not invariably, a Simultaneous contraction Of the triceps muscle, limited to a few of its middle fibers as a rule, but in some cases amounting to a decided bulging of the whole muscle. It will be noted that there is here a certain correspond ence with the movement of thigh muscles excitable from the sole and external malleolar skin-area, and also that the induction of this movement, in some cases, from a wide area Of the skin Of the forearm, is analogous to abnormal toe-signs excitable from extensive skin-areas Of the lower extremities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.