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Lay your right hand, palm down, flat on any plane surface. Press the
fingers quite firmly down on the table. Place the forefinger of the left
hand on the nail of the forefinger on the right hand with a slight
amount of pressure. Raise the forefinger of the right hand as high as
possible from the table against this pressure. Keep the forefinger of
the right hand straight, save at the knuckle joint, and the other
fingers firmly on the table. Return the finger to the table against
muscular resistance. Repeat this exercise twenty times.
Go through this same exercise with the other fingers of the right hand,
then reverse and proceed with the fingers of the left hand.
Do this exercise with the thumb nail, but instead of having the whole
hand flat on the table, have the fingers curl, so that the side of the
hand touches the table, and raise the thumb against the pressure of the
finger of the opposite hand twenty times.