A Simple Method for Recording Changes in Cutaneous Sensibility

Abstract

and several other New York hospitals have adopted a method for the recording of changes in cutaneous sensibility, which on account of its simplicity is, we believe, worthy of being used as a standard. The method was suggested by Dr. Elsberg, and has served in our institution to obviate the difficulties often encountered in the understanding of the records of sensory disturbances. Whenever such a chart is examined, whether it be at the bedside or in a medical journal, it often requires considerable study before the meaning of the markings by which the different disturbances of sensibility are characterized are understood.