ppear utterlypurposeless, looking as if the tendons were merelypulling upon dead fingers, as an automaton pulledby strings, or like the movements of a bonelesslimb, such as an elephants trunk or an anemonestentacle. The metacarpal bones are rather con-tracted together by the arching of the palm of… … Fig. 16.—Cases of Athetosis showing Hand Postures. BILATERAL ATHETOSIS. 131 of the right upper extremity especially attractedattention. The following description is compiledfrom notes taken on various occasions :— The limb was useless for any purposive move-ments; there was no voluntary power over…
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