Abstract
In 1896 Babinski 1 described the reflex which bears his name, in two hundred and ninety-nine words. Two years later he 2 elaborated his work in two pages, presenting almost all the important features of the normal and pathologic plantar responses in human beings. Regarding this work Fulton and Keller 3 stated: As one reads it today in the light of clinical work of the last thirty years, it is evident that there is little to add concerning the mode of elicitation of the response and concerning its general characteristics except that the fanning of the outer toes is not mentioned. However, Babinski 4 described the fanning in 1903. If one does not consider the extensive animal experiments of the last few years, one finds that little has been added to the essentials of these two short communications of Babinski, which have given more stimulus to clinical experimentation than the
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