The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 405
otation out- wards, the wrist flexed, the fist shut ; sometimes the two hands, drawn towards the middle of the body, touch by their backs and even may cross. The inferior extremities are equally in extension, the knees strongly brought together, and the feet clubbed, turned either inward or… … The position just described is that which is most common, but it has many variations. The trunk and the limbs, diversely flexed and ex- tended, give to the patients unforeseen and bizarre positions, which would be confounded, without care, with the contortions of the second period ; but on close…
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