M0014478: An injured hand and forearm

Previous title, replaced January 2022: An injured hand and forearm.

The back and front views (A and B) of the hand and forearm of which the cubital (ulnar) nerve had been injured. The clawlike form is due to paralysis and atrophy of the interossei and the contraction of the extensor muscle. Published in Duchenne, G.-B.: Physiologie des mouvements demontree a l'aide de l'experimentation electrique et de l'observation clinique, Paris : Bailliere, 1867. Related images: M0014476, M0014477, M0014479, M0014480, M0014481, M0014482, M0014483, M0014484, M0014485, M0014486, M0014487, M0014488

January 1956

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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