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Baker MR, Williams TL, Larner AJ. Rehabilitating Romberg. ADVANCES IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE & REHABILITATION 2022. [DOI: 10.47795/eonw6640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Few Neurologists will be unfamiliar with referral letters stating that the patient has “Rhomberg’s sign” or some “mild rhombergism” (capitalisation variable), a particularly irritating misnomer for the pedants among us. As Henry Higgins the fictional Professor of Phonetics [1] observed: ‘Does the same thing hold true in India, Pickering? Is there the peculiar habit of not only dropping a letter like the letter “h”, but using it where it doesn’t belong, like “hever” instead of “ever”?’ My Fair Lady – Act 1, Scene 5, p58 [1]. Or Rhomberg instead of Romberg! So, who was “Rhomberg,” and what did he describe?
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