[Leica] the Rabiner for 14 bucks

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

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>
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