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work_oqaujrhgnrfwvirpy3caexw2bu	Francis Schiller	THE REFLEX HAMMER. IN MEMORIAM ROBERT WARTENBERG (1887–1956)	1967	11	.pdf	application/pdf	6709	554	68	Piorry (or Sir David Barry) to introduce the percussion hammer. remained in the internist's armamentarium, where Professor Dr. Wilhelm Erb conveniently found it, ready to be converted into a 'reflex hammer.' For a considerable time Erb had been noticing the quadriceps reflex: to be elicited Erb pointed to the spinal cord levels as presumably corresponding to the reflex arcs refuted three years later in a series of animal experiments and clinical observations conducted in du Bois-Reymond's 'new' physiological laboratory, and in Westphal's own reflexes' would allow one to establish the affected level in spinal cord disease. commanding position that he was the first man to wield a reflex hammer and to establish the 'tendon-reflex' as a basic phenomenon. In an article immediately preceding his paper on tendon reflexes, others had come to call it 'myotatic', a muscle stretch-not a tendon-reflex.26a I use my experience, [he wrote,] according to which the tendon reflexes, and the knee phenomenon	./cache/work_oqaujrhgnrfwvirpy3caexw2bu.pdf	./txt/work_oqaujrhgnrfwvirpy3caexw2bu.txt