The Examination of Reflexes. A Simplification.

Wartenberg, Robert

Publication Date: 1946

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Chicago, The YeartBook Publishers, Inc., April 1945, Reprinted , December 1946, kl.8°, XII, 222 pp., With Illustrations, orig. cloth. With a Foreword by Foster Kennedy. Robert Wartenberg (1887-1956) was a clinical neurologist and professor. "Born in the then-Russian Empire, he attended university and established his career in Germany. As a Jew, he was fired from his position as the University of Freiburg's Clinical Department of Neurology during the Nazi regime. He immigrated to the US, settling in San Francisco and teaching at the University of California in San Francisco." "Although Wartenberg participated in the early development of encephalography and myelography, he tended to favor clinical examinations and most of his accomplishments involved the identification new reflexes and signs that could be used to diagnose neurological problems from clinical examination of a patient. These included such signs as: A way to diagnose neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, by observing how a patient swings their legs when seated on the examining table; The tendon palpation test, in which a lesion in a patient's lower motor neurons can be detected from the softness of their Achilles tendon when standing; The lid vibration test, in which detects early signs of facial palsy (or the final signs near the end of recover from it) from eyelid movement; and The accessory nerve test in which damage to a nerve along the trapezius is revealed by examining whether the patient's fingers hang lower on one side than the other when the patient is standing. He was also the first person to identify Cheiralgia paresthetica, also known as handcuff neuropathy or as Wartenberg's syndrome." wiki Garrison & Morton No. 5014 (1st. ed. 1945).

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• Title: The Examination of Reflexes. A Simplification.
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Hardcover
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