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flexor digitorum sublimis, or of the muse, abductor indicis.^ The 

 former type of contraction, however, must be repeated in rapid suc- 



FiG. 49. — Mosso's Ergogbaph. 

 c, is the carriage moving to and fro on runners by means of the cord d, which passes 

 from the carriage to a holder attached to the last two phalanges of the middle finger 

 (the adjoining fingers are held in place by clamps) ; p, the writing point of the carriage, 

 c, which makes the record of its movements on the kymograph; w, the weight to be 

 lifted. (Howell) 



Fig. 50. — Normal Fatigue Curve of the Flexors of the Middle Finger of Right 



Hand. 

 Weight 3 kilograms, contractions at intervals of two seconds. (Maggiora.) 



cession, because even a load of as much as 6 kg. Hfted at intervals of 

 1 Storey, Am. Jour, of Physiol., viii, 1903, 356. 



