. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. intohot water. The mammary reflex is evoked by tickling the breast, when theni])ples are erected hy the contraction of the muscular fibres. The al>dominal reflex is the contraction of the muscles of theabdominal wall when the skin over the abdomen is irritated by thefinger-nail, or by a l)luiit ol>ject, or with something cold or sometiiinghot The upper part of this nsflex is known as the epigastric reflex. 150 NERVOUS DISEASES. CONTRACTURE. Contracture is a coudition of the muscles which differs radi
. A treatise on nervous and mental diseases, for students and practitioners of medicine. intohot water. The mammary reflex is evoked by tickling the breast, when theni])ples are erected hy the contraction of the muscular fibres. The al>dominal reflex is the contraction of the muscles of theabdominal wall when the skin over the abdomen is irritated by thefinger-nail, or by a l)luiit ol>ject, or with something cold or sometiiinghot The upper part of this nsflex is known as the epigastric reflex. 150 NERVOUS DISEASES. CONTRACTURE. Contracture is a coudition of the muscles which differs radicallyfrom contraction. In the latter the muscle is locked, as by fixationof a joint or by callus. In the former the muscle is contracted,but the contracture is not fixed, and can be overcome by gentlypressing upon the muscle, the contracting muscle giving to the exam-iners hand the sensation as of wax gradually yielding. This con-dition generally, almost invariably, affects the flexor muscles, andvaries in degree, from the slight contraction that can only be evoked Fig. 97. Fig.
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