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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

KERNIG, Vladimir Mikhailovich (Woldemar) (1840 – 1917)

1840 – 1917

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1882

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Ein Krankheitssymptom der acuten Meningitis.

KERNIG, Vladimir Mikhailovich (Woldemar) (1840 – 1917)

Kernig drew attention to a flexor contracture of the leg on attempting to extend it on the thigh (“Kernig’s sign”), almost always present in cerebrospinal meningitis and an important diagnostic sign. A fuller descript…