Hirschmüller A
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Tübingen.
NTM. 1997;5(2):104-18.
Since the beginning of the 19th century dynamometry was a common method to measure human body strength. Instruments were described by J.-B. Regnier, G.B.A. Duchenne de Boulogne. V. Burq et Mathieu, and unauthorized copies of different size were also being used. Although it is not clear which instrument exactly Sigmund Freud used when trying to measure the effects of cocaine on grip strength in 1884, it seems that he used copies like those maintained in the Museum on the History of Medicine in Ingolstadt. Attempts of quantification seem to belong to the scientific tendencies in mid and late 19th century medicine. It can be demonstrated, that the roots of dynamometry go back to the first decades of the century and belong to the conceptions derived from Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism.
自19世纪初以来，握力测量法一直是测量人体力量的常用方法。J.-B. 雷尼耶、G.B.A. 迪歇纳·德·布洛涅、V. 比尔克和马蒂厄等人都曾描述过相关仪器，不同尺寸的未经授权的复制品也在被使用。虽然目前尚不清楚西格蒙德·弗洛伊德在1884年试图测量可卡因对握力的影响时具体使用的是哪种仪器，但他似乎使用的是因戈尔施塔特医学史博物馆所保存的那种复制品。量化尝试似乎属于19世纪中后期医学的科学倾向。可以证明，握力测量法的根源可以追溯到该世纪的头几十年，并且属于源自催眠术和动物磁力学的概念。
