86 LOCALIZED ELECTEIZATION. 



These points are : for the fasciculus of the index, ou the inner side 

 of the second radialis exteruus (extensor carpi radialis brevior) at 

 from 10 to 14 centimetres below the epicondyle ; for the fasciculus 

 of the ring fiuger, a little below the epicondyle, on the plane of 

 the posterior aspect of the ulna. It is requisite, in all these 

 operations, to use a current that is only slightly penetrating (that 

 of the first helix), and of moderate strength; in order that the 

 excitation may not reach the deeper layers. 



By following the anatomical data that I have set forth, I have 

 been able to obtain with certainty, in the first patient presenting 

 himself, isolated contraction of the fasciculi of the extensor com- 

 munis, and also contraction of the other fasciculi that move the 

 fingers and the thumb. 



(&). It was with reference to the difficulties that the practice of 

 localized muscular faradization presents even to an anatomist, if 

 not possessed of these data, that I wrote, in the former editions, 

 the following lines : — " It must not be suj)posed that it is sufficient 

 to know the precepts that I have laid down, and to be an anatomist, 

 in order to possess completely the art of making each muscle or 

 fasciculus contract singly. To attain this degree of skill, it is 

 necessary to be initiated into a vast number of details, which I 

 cannot enter ui3on without transgressing the limits that I have laid 

 down." 



Remak, misinterpreting initiated as if it referred to some 

 mystery, played upon the word, and referred to it perpetually 

 and maliciously in his brochure. However, having knowledge of 

 the general precepts already laid down, he ought to understand, 

 especially after having seen me make the ajDplication, that it would 

 be possible to initiate himself into these anatomical details. He 

 is said since then to have done so, by seeking, in dissections, the 

 points of immersion of the muscular nerves.^ 



9 lu October, 1852, Remak did me the contract singly, he adds, " Whoever has 



honour to be present, with MI\I. the seen the skill and (Confidence with which 



Professors Richter (of Dresden), Jacksch ho (M.Ducheune) throws the great muscles 



(of Prague), Hebra (of Vienna), and into contraction coidd almost comi^lain 



other German sffyawfo, at a ^ea«''e at which of his intention to preserve his secret." 



I demonstrated exijerimentally the func- (p. 11.) 



tions of certain muscles by electricity. When I experiment in the presence df 



M. Remak writes, in the brochure already pupils, I habitually remember to explain 



cited, that this seance was of such interest the anatomical reasons that induce me to 



that he gave an account of it, on his place the rlieophores upon this or that 



return from Paris, to the IMedical Society point of election, in order to oljtain either 



of Berlin. But he explains that my the contraction of a muscle en masae or 



verbal explanations were confined to the contraction of one of its fasciculi or 



physiological demonstration ; and did portions. But, before the select auditory 



not include my method of localized of which Remak formed part, I .should 

 electrization. Then, not having under- j have thought it out of place to deliver 



stood how it was possible to make muscles a lesson on anatomy. 



