62 “The Cure of Writers' Cramp,” Brit. Med. Journ., 1885, vol. i. pp. 323-325.
Fritz63 (and after him Poincaré64) considers the disease a reflected neurosis, due to a perversion of the muscular sense. Onimus and Legros65 incline to the same opinion.
63 Oesterr. Jahrb., März u. April, 1844.
64 Le Système nerveux-péripherique, Paris, 1876.
65 Traité d'Electricite médicale, Paris, 1872, p. 327.
The older theory that the disease is solely central in its pathology is advocated by Duchenne,66 Solly,67 Reynolds,68 Althaus,69 Wood,70 Vance,71 Erb,72 Dally,73 Axenfield,74 Whittaker,75 Waller,76 Gowers,77 Hammond,78 Romberg,79 Cederschjöld,80 Robins,81 Ross,82 and some others. Roth83 considers that there are two entirely separate classes, the central and the peripheral or local.
66 De l'Électrisation localisée, 3d ed., pp. 1021 et seq.
67 London Lancet, Jan. 28, 1865.
68 System of Medicine.
69 Julius Althaus, London Mirror, vol. vii., Aug. 1, 1870; also, pamphlet, Scriveners' Palsy, London, 1870.