The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. o20.—Contraction of Supinators of Forearm and Extensors of the Fig. 521.—Contraction of Flexors and Pronators of the Hand. it in two opposite conditions; that of forcible extension (Fig. 520), and that of forcible flexion and pronation (Fig. 521 \ in both instances it appeared to have been the result of excessive use of certain muscles; in the first case in wringing out clothes, in the other in cutting with very heavy shears. In the case of flexion and pronation, it was interesting to
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . Fig. o20.—Contraction of Supinators of Forearm and Extensors of the Fig. 521.—Contraction of Flexors and Pronators of the Hand. it in two opposite conditions; that of forcible extension (Fig. 520), and that of forcible flexion and pronation (Fig. 521 \ in both instances it appeared to have been the result of excessive use of certain muscles; in the first case in wringing out clothes, in the other in cutting with very heavy shears. In the case of flexion and pronation, it was interesting to observe that, wiien the fingers were extended, the wrist became flexed, and wlien tlie wrist was extended the fingers became bent in. In these cases change of occupation, friction, and galvanism, with the use of a straight splint, were advantageously resorted to, a cure being eventually effected. Paralysis of the Extensors and Supinators, owing to injury ofthe musculo-spiral nerve consequent on fracture of the humerus, with orwithout tonic contraction of the flexors and pronators, has been de-scribed at page 416, Vol. I. Club-hand.—A deformity resembling club-fo
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