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Heinrich Lamm, MD
Harlingen, Tex

JAMA. 1968;206(13):2901.

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To the Editor:—

To get together an anatomical orchestra may be a little easier than Dr. Gode (205:869, 1968) thinks.

In the percussion section he mentions the drums; they are really snare drums: They have a chorda tympani. In some neutrophil leukocytes of women we find the drumsticks. Drumsticks in German are Trommelschlegel, and Trommelschlegelfinger are what we call clubbed fingers. Triangles abound (cervical, Hesselbach's, Calot's, etc). German "becken" means cymbals and also pelvis (both bony and renal).

In the wind section, Dr. Gode mentions the various tubae. Unmodified they'll serve as natural instruments, like hunting horns. The Germans call one set of tubes trumpets (Muttertrompeten); bugles would be better. With the numerous available valves in heart, veins, and gut, we can easily transform them into modern chromatic instruments. With tubes, valves, and a double reed (Sternberg cell) we can make shawms, oboes, English horns, bassoons, and contrabassoons and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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