Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-03 | Page 26 | Strange Signals of the Body's Different Muscles

Strange Signals of the Body's Different Muscles G with tho hammer on T TAPPING TAPPI certain mu muscles les elicits a re reflex ex contraction up to from 90 to minutes after death The contraction can be elicited In Inthe Inthe inthe the same way on em the living but it is ismore ismore more moro pronounced in the cadaver as there Is Ie no antagonistic tonus Some 0 of ot f the muscles muscles' ma may respond for four hours after death Tapping along tho the radius from tho the elbow downward a point Is reached where this induces 1 extension of tHe tJ hand tapping along the radius radium above the wrist causes 2 3 the tho thumb to bend Tapping Tapping Tap Tap- ping ling on the spaces between the bones In the hand causes 3 tho the corresponding corre spending fingers ers ng-ers to close up Extension Extension Exten Exten- sion slon of the toes is induced by tapping on the tho back of ot the foot root 4 1 and adduction adduction ad ad- of or the foot root follows tapping on the leg leg- 5 o while extension occurs on tapping along the tibia at the tho middle mid middie dIe dle third G C A movement of or the muscles up Ul to the fhe inguinal region occurs when the lower third of ot the thigh is tapped across 7 and the scapulae move toward each other whoa when the back Is tapped between the scapula nd J the spine Prof Piot called attention In 1912 1 to these muscle mechanical phenomena phen phenomena mena and the experiences In the war j have o confirmed and amplified his previous statements Tho The lack of oC an any response testifies that death must J Jha ha have 0 occurred from two to four our hours before Some of ot the responses may s be bd observed even through the cloth cloth- 1 ln In ing I 1