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E. Wayne Massey, MD
Division of Neurology Duke University Medical Center PO Box 3909 Durham, NC 27710

Arch Neurol. 1990;47(3):253.

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To the Editor.—In reference to the article "Babinski's Sign in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art¹" in which material from The Plantar Reflex: An Historical Clinical and Electromyographic Study² was used without attribution: The use of a quotation from Dr Van Gijn's article without reference was inappropriate and I apologize publically to him. I have previously apologized privately. My coauthor, L Sanders, was not involved in writing the section in question. As I stated in a previous, unpublished letter to the editor, I have never seen Dr Van Gijn's thesis. Over 10 years ago, a colleague gave me several photocopied pages containing this text. The author of this material was not identified and there was no indication on these pages where the material had been published. At that time I made several attempts to identify the source of this material, without success. I made notes from these pages and later forgot . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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