Improbable Research - "The 'Costoclavicular Syndrome', " R. Slater, British Medical Journal, March 29, 1947, p. 422. The author explains:
"The instructive article by Prof. E. D. Telford and Mr. S. Mottershead (March 15, p. 325) on the 'costoclavicular syndrome' prompts me to mention a cause of paraesthesia in the arms and hands of middle-aged men to which I have not seen any reference. Two cases have come to my notice in the last few years. The paraesthesia is caused by wearing a shirt of thick material with the sleeves rolled up to the axilla.... The mechanism is similar to that of the fakir's trick of stuffing a handkerchief into his armpit and stopping his radial pulse at will by pressing his arm closely to his side. An interesting point in my two cases is that neither man would wear his shirt sleeves unrolled. When seen a year or so later they were free from symptoms, but each informed me that he could not bear long shirt sleeves and had cut them off."
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