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Show Tight wrist watch warning Neuritis In the Fingers and Hands Has Been Traced to the Pressure Pres-sure on Nerves. Be careful not to bind the strap of your wrist watch too tight. Several cases of neuritis In the fingers and hands has been traced to this cause. Dr. John S. Stopford tells In the Lancet Lan-cet of a student who experienced tingling tin-gling pains along the Inner borders of the hand and In the little finger. These bad persisted for some time and caused discomfort and anxiety. On examination examina-tion a tender point was discovered on the dorsal surface of the styloid process proc-ess of the ulna, and pressure In this situation caused pain to radiate from this point Into the dorsal cutaneous branch of the ulnar nerve. There was no sign of paresis or atrophy of any of the intrinsic muscles of the hand, nor were any trophic changes found. On Investigating a cause for this localized lo-calized neuritis the only possibility appeared to be the wearing of a tight wristlet watch, which clearly could produce compression of the dorsal cutaneous cu-taneous branch of thn ulnar nerve as It curved round the lower extremity of the ulna. On discarding the wristlet wrist-let the discomfort gradually disappeared. disap-peared. "Hopeless." She can do about as she pleases, this little mite of six summers. While her Aunt Ellen heartily disapproves of such "goings on" and never falls to give some well-meaalt advice, even she cannot always suppress a smile. The assertive young person was playing play-ing her mother's expensive vlctrola and as the golden notes of Mme. Galll-Curcl'si voice poured forth In her famous "Dlnorah" record, remarked: re-marked: "Say, Aunt Ellen, how can she sing like thatr Aunt Ellen thought this a fitting occasion! on which to appeal to the child's better eoture and told her that God had bestowed be-stowed this great gift upon the singer at birth, under the tutelage of famous fa-mous masters, It had been brought to Its present power. Expecting some sweet childish respond, she was com-pletely com-pletely taken off her guard at hearing hear-ing her young relative rejoin: "Gee, God gave me some dizzy voice!" |
