How does a doctor examine a patient who is too ticklish to be touched? Usually he doesn't; he asks such patients to press hard on vital points of their own anatomy and report whether it hurts an admittedly unsatisfactory substitute. But Detroit's Dr. Robert A. Gerisch had an idea. He had grown up with the problem, because his own fa ther had been so ticklish that he would jump if anybody pointed a finger at him.
What struck Dr. Gerisch was that his father could jab a finger between his own...
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