The exercises were developed by Heinrich Frenkel, a Swiss neurologist who, one day in 1887, while examining a patient with ataxia, observed the patient's poor performance of the finger-to-nose test.
Heinrich Sebastian Frenkel (June 5, 1860 Heiden, Switzerland – April 21, 1931 Dresden-Loschwitz) was a Swiss physician and neurologist born in Heiden, a town overlooking Lake Constance.
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