Der Gang des Menschen Ueber die Bewegungen in den Handgelenken

Abstract

IT is strange that two men, working side by side within the same university, publishing results of investigations on similar subjects in consecutive pages of the Proceedings of the same learned society, should produce two treatises so diverse in nature as those of Dr. Otto Fischer and Prof. Fick. Each employs a peculiar and comparatively new method for the solution of problems which have been thumbmarked by ten generations of anatomists. Dr. Fischer is a mathematician as well as an anatomist, a combination so rare that, in applying the later methods of mathematical physics to the elucida tion of the movements of the human body in walking, he has left his colleagues far behind and is almost without audience or critic. Prof. Fick's paper is the result of the application of Röntgen rays to the study of the complex movements of the wrist-joint, a method only compara tively new.

Der Gang des Menschen.

iv. Thiel. Ueber die Bewegung des Fusses und die auf denselben einwirkenden Kräfte, Von Otto Fischer. Pp. 86; 3 plates. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1901.) Price Mk. 5.50.

Ueber die Bewegungen in den Handgelenken.

Von Rudolf Fick. Pp. 54; with 8 figures in text and 10 plates. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1901.) Price Mk. 6.50.