486 THE HAND AS AN UNRULY MEMBER. 
idea of Antagonism are Oken,* Gerdy, Agassiz,+ Hum- 
phrey, Wyman,} Foltz,§ and Dana,* with which small 
number the writer has the honor to be associated. 
THE PARALLELISTS. The ancient anatomists contented 
themselves with pointing out certain obvious correspond- 
ences as to general appearance, as those between the 
bone of the upper arm and that of the thigh, between the 
knee and the elbow. Their prudent example is still fol- 
lowed by those who do not care to involve themselves in 
a controversy, and who find it easier to adopt, unques- 
tioned, the opinions of a predecessor; and, in spite of 
errors and inconsistencies, this method had generally the 
merit of non-interference with Nature, and may, in medi- 
cal language, be styled the expectant plan of treatment. 
But a large and distinguished majority of investigators 
seem to have made up their minds beforehand that some- 
thing was out of the way, and, in their endeavors to 
rectify the supposed disordered state of the limbs, have 
pursued a more heroic course of treatment which, from 
the various methods employed, may be divided into dislo- 
cation and reversion, fracture and torsion; or, as their 
advocates might say, since in their opinion the Creator 
_ had already inflicted the above-named injuries upon their 
unhappy patients, reduction, setting, and untwisting. 
Dislocation with reversion and substitution. The fi 
“resolutely undertake and seriously discuss the problem 
of the comparison between the extremities in man 
The positions of Oken and of — this ape are peculiar, 
and will 
be Pied aee farther on. i 
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E a, neren i des Membres elviens et thoracique, ete. Mems. 
de Montpelier. . p- 473. 
