[Leica] the Rabiner for 14 bucks

[csaganich at gmail.com (Chris Saganich)]

My father tested my reflexes with the back of his hand...as his father did.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> That's my grandfather Dr. Abraham M. Rabiner an eminent neurologist who
> invented the Rabiner Hammer which they hit you on the knee with to test
> your
> reflex during a typical medical exam. Though there are a few others to
> choose from by now.
>
> http://www.med-psych.net/reflex/babinski.html
>
> It was a modification of Babinski of France's hammer in which you could
> take
> off the round head and attach it two ways.
> During a typically staid neurological medical meeting in Vienna  in 1920
> they had it out on the floor in a humorous story that is all over the
> medical internet. Its rare these meetings get anywhere near that level of
> excitement.
>
> When I was a kid whenever I had a cough or anything my grandfather got out
> his hammer out of his top pocket. Tested a number of my reflexes. Most kids
> don't get that.
>
>
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: Bharani Padmanabhan <scleroplex at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:25:42 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] the rabiner for 14 bucks
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/5461405612/
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> > happy weekend :-)
> > bharani
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