Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's to test your duck reflex. Make sure you don't have Duckingsons disease. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ mark at rabinergroup.com Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:55:08 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] the Rabiner for 14 bucks > > 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/ >>> >>> happy weekend :-) >>> bharani >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information