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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1962;44:1395-1411.
© 1962 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

The Hand in Systemic Disease

Hubert B. Bradburn M.D.1, Robert A. Chase M.D.1, and Jon M. Fessel B.A.1

1 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

Common, and some uncommon, findings in the hand have been described and illustrated. The diagnostic importance of these findings has been emphasized in an attempt to extol the hand as a source of valuable information concerning the patient and his disease:

"To one who examines it carefully the hand tells much concerning its owner; for in it is written the record of age and sex, of health or disease, of occupation and habit, of skill or ineptitude, of accident and misuse, of work or indolence. One does not need the mysteries of palmistry to read there something of the past, a good deal of the present, and even a little of the future".


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