Brain Exhaustion, with Some Preliminary Considerations on Cerebral Dynamics (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... ELECTRIZATION OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE, WITH SIMULTANEOUS BILATERAL COMPRESSION OF THE CAROTIDS. Local galvanization of the head is an excellent collateral expedient in many of these cases. It has never been my good fortune, however, to have achieved those incredible results which have been ascribed to it when thus applied by some writers. General faradization, on the contrary, is a therapeutic measure from which much may be anticipated in cases of exhaustion of brain power. A form of electrical application--which, however, transcends all others in efficacy, especially where there is present any considerable cerebral congestion--is the method introduced by myself, the essential feature of which consists in the faradization or galvanization of the sympathetic nerve with an instrument which at the same time compresses the trunks of both common carotid arteries, f As I believe this method of compressing the artery and galvanizing the Applied as indicated by Drs. Beard and Rockwell in their admirable work on " Electro-Therapeutics." t "Electrization of the Sympathetic and Pneumogastric Nerves, with Simultaneous Bilateral Compression of the Carotids," by J. Leonard Corning, M. D. "New Tork Medical Journal," February 23, 1884. sympathetic nerve at the same time constitutes one of the most powerful means which we possess for treating disorders of the sympathetic system, as well as derangements of intra-ganglionic nutrition, I will give an account of the instrument devised by myself, with special reference to this plan of treatment. The chief features of this instrument are two curved metallic armatures, to each of the extremities of which is attached a small sponge electrode. These sponge electrodes are insulated, by means of hard-rubber plates, from the metal ar...