TY - JOUR
AU - Corbett, James J.
AB - correspondence Swinging flashlight test (2) Bringing up some heavy artillery-Bartley and Bishop’s 1942 rabbit recordings-to blast away at the straw men. To the Editor: Dr. Landau1 correctly cautions us to beware of the (3) Toesing the baby out with the bath water. Levatin’s “baby” loose usage of the Marcus Gunn phenomenon. I thank him for provid- was that alternating the light helped the clinician to detect asymme- ing a reference to substantiate my third reason in my argument with try, and the “bath water” was Marcus Gunn’s inclination to watch for residents that they should not describe the “MBICUB-G~~~” phenom- pupillary escape. enon when doing a swinging flashlight test. (Reason # 1 is that I prefer (4) High-nosed dismissal. Dr. Landau dismisses the alternating descriptive teats instead of eponyms. Reaeon #2 is that Marcus Gunn light test as “hypnotic” and this suggests that the observer may wake was one man; therefore, the phenomenon named after him should be up with a start, realizing that after ten swings nothing has been, or is spelled without a hyphen between the two words). going to be, gleaned from this test because the examiner has forgotten However, I should like to point out 
TI - Swinging flashlight test
JF - Neurology
DA - 1989-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/swinging-flashlight-test-1NeSkDjwpI
SP - 154–156-154&ndash
EP - ndash;156-154–156
VL - 39
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -