Abstract
In September 1872, a British medical journal called The Practitioner published a paper by George Vivian Poore which contained the description of a right-handed bachelor named George Gair, who had been a clerk first in a commercial firm and then in an accountant’s office. There, by reason of his neat handwriting, he had been constantly employed in copying balance sheets. He used to do, on average, nine hours of writing a day. He had been working in this way for about 14 months when one evening, towards the close of his day’s work, he experienced some difficulty in keeping his right hand on the sheet. This difficulty remained all through the following three days. In order to write he had to hold his right hand firmly on the desk with his left hand.
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Lebrun, Y., Devreux, F., Leleux, C. (1991). Writer’s Cramp. In: Joshi, R.M. (eds) Written Language Disorders. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3732-4_7
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