Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist being a system of gymnastics, based on anatomical principles, for developing and strengthening the muscles of the hand for musical, mechanical and medical purposes: with thirty-seven diagrams

d. Two muscles, also rising from the cavity of the hand, and moving the

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little finger towards the thumb (Fig. 3 _g_).

Lumbricales, or Flexores primi Internodii Digitorum, are situated in the hollow of the hand, and pass to their tendinous implantations with the interossei at the first joint of each finger, externally and laterally, next the thumb (Fig. 4 _a_, _b_). These perform those minute motions of the fingers when the second and third internodes are curvated by the muscles, and therefore are used in playing musical instruments, whence they are named Musculi Fidicinales, or fiddle-muscles.[3]

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Luther Holden, Manual of Anatomy (London, 1861), Lecturer on Anatomy in Bartholomew’s Hospital. Hermann Meyer: Lehrbuch der Physiologischen Anatomie. Leipzig, 1856.

[3] William Cowper, Myotomia reformata. London, 1724. Richard Quain, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen.