On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . riG. Fig. 1.—Dissection of contraction of little finger, showing contraction to depend upon tliePalmar Fascia alone ; from specimen in Museum of Kings College, a. Contracted Band ofPalmar Fascia stretching across like string of the bow; &. Plexor Tendons lying deeply alongthe concavity of the curve, close to the bones. Pig. 2.—Another view of same dissection as Fig. 1. showing contraction to depend upon aband of the Palmar Fascia. (From Druitts Surcjeons Fade Meoum. Eleventh Edition, Fig. 301J. &
On contractions of the fingers (Dupuytren's and congenital contractions) and on "hammer-toe" . riG. Fig. 1.—Dissection of contraction of little finger, showing contraction to depend upon tliePalmar Fascia alone ; from specimen in Museum of Kings College, a. Contracted Band ofPalmar Fascia stretching across like string of the bow; &. Plexor Tendons lying deeply alongthe concavity of the curve, close to the bones. Pig. 2.—Another view of same dissection as Fig. 1. showing contraction to depend upon aband of the Palmar Fascia. (From Druitts Surcjeons Fade Meoum. Eleventh Edition, Fig. 301J. & A. Churchill, London, ISZS.) of the hand, the facial band stretching across, likethe string of a bow, and passing along the outerside of the little finger, along the first phalanx, tothe beginning of the second. The flexor tendons h,Fig. 1, are in no degree implicated in the contraction,and may be seen deeply in the concavity of the curve 8 DUPUTTEEN S FINGER CONTRACTION. in their normal relation to the bone, , in the densetubular sheath by which they are closely bound downto the p
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