Essay awarded the "Boylston" prize for 1897, department of anatomy and physiology, by the Boylstonmedical committee, Boston, Mass.

Extensor tendons are found just under the skin of the hand or the top of the feet. Extensor tendonitis is an inflammation of these tendons, and many factors can cause it. Tendons are bands of tissue ...

THE hand as a source of clinical information is so obvious that it may be neglected; yet there are no parts of the body more accessible for clinical study. Unique for its abundance of muscles, nerves ...