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Ataxia
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ ATAXIA  id+ | CLUMSY per TREMOR or
                BACK and FORTH MOTION |
  start see> TAX
  med> LACK OF ORDERLY MOTION instead
       BACK AND FORTH MOTION or SHAKING or TREMBLING
  gr ATAKTOS   or
       TASSEIN = DISORDERED
       TAXIS     ORDER          sug> TOSS TACT TACTILE
  med> DYSFUNCTION OF COORDINATION
       NORMALLY CONTROLLED MOSTLY BY
  PURKINJE CELLS OF THE CEREBELLUM
  hx> Johannes E von PURKINJE [#] 1790-1869 WAS A BOHEMIAN
      or more truthfully A CZECH ANATOMIST
  HIS MOST CELEBRATED DISCOVERY CONCERNS THE NEURAL CELLS
  NAMED AFTER HIM BUT PURKINJE ALSO REPORTED IN HIS THESIS
  HIS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF FINGER PRINTS or DERMATOGLYPHICS
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