" His muscular system was well-developed,
and, like Sandow, he could make muscles act in concert or
separately.
He could throw into energetic single action the biceps, the
supinator longus, the radial extensors, the platysma myoides, and
many other muscles. When he "strings," as he called it, the
sartorius, that ribbon muscle shows itself as a tight cord,
extending from the front of the iliac spine to the inner side of
the knee. Another trick was to leave flaccid that part of the
serratus magnus which is attached to the inferior angle of the
scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in the rhomboids.
He could displace his muscles so that the lower angles of the
scapulae projected and presented the appearance historically
attributed to luxation of the scapula.
Warren was well informed on surgical landmarks and had evidently
been a close student of Sir Astley Cooper's classical
illustrations of dislocations. He was able so to contract his
abdominal muscles that the aorta could be distinctly felt with
the fingers. In this feat nearly all the abdominal contents were
crowded beneath the diaphragm. On the other hand, he could
produce a phantom abdominal tumor by driving the coils of the
intestine within a peculiar grasp of the rectus and oblique
muscles.
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