On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . fasciculi, which extend from the fasciato the sheaths of the flexor tendons and the sides ofthe phalanges, into which they are inserted by theirinferior extremities, extending sometimes from thefirst to the second phalanx. He also describes trans-verse fasciculi connecting the longitudinal bands;and considers Dupuytrens opinion, that the palmarfascia alone was the cause of the contraction, to beerroneous. Partridge^s dissection in Kings College Museum,—In the Museum of Kings College, is a dissectedsp
On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . fasciculi, which extend from the fasciato the sheaths of the flexor tendons and the sides ofthe phalanges, into which they are inserted by theirinferior extremities, extending sometimes from thefirst to the second phalanx. He also describes trans-verse fasciculi connecting the longitudinal bands;and considers Dupuytrens opinion, that the palmarfascia alone was the cause of the contraction, to beerroneous. Partridge^s dissection in Kings College Museum,—In the Museum of Kings College, is a dissectedspecimen of one of these finger contractions, No. * Gazette Medicalo cle Paris, 1835, p. 481; also Meuioircs deIAeadeiuie Koyale do Medeciiie, Tome 111.; aud Gazette Medicale,I80I, p. 219. GOYllAND S AND PARTEIDGE S DISSECTIONS. 7 1444-3, presented by the late Professor Partridge,(see Figs. 1 and 2). In this specimen the contractionis limited to the little finger, and shown to dependupon a strong contracted band of the j^almar fasciaa, by which the finger is drawn towards the palm FIG. riG. 2.
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