Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic System of Nerves

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...in painful swelling of the joints (arthritis nodosa), and which yields to galvanic treatment of the sympathetic. Remak also includes the so-called reflex paralysis amongst the paralyses of the sympathetic; probably also certain forms of hysterical, saturnine, and diphtheritic paralyses. We pass over Remak?s other statements which refer more particularly to therapeutics, as we are now more especially treating of the pathogeny of the disease, and will again discuss, at the end of this? sketch, its treatment by means of the so-called galvanization of the sympathetic. Remak?s observations regarding ?diplegic movements ? were confirmed by M. Meyer and Drissen-F in a case of progressive muscular atrophy. Fieber, I on the contrary, could not produce these movements in a similar case by following Remak?s method. Benedikt§ also states that in the cases treated by him the diplegic movements were wanting, but, nevertheless, recommends galvanization of the sympathetic, in connection with other methods of galvanization--a plan of treatment the importance of which is fully proved by his valuable record? of cases. Erb1l also states that he has not been able to obtain the diplegic contractions in the manner described by Remak; it does not appear, however, that he experimented on actual cases of progressive muscular atrophy. Though in most of our cases of this disease the diplegic movements could not be excited, we were able, with little difiiculty,' to demonstrate them in one single case. With regard to the conditions which give rise to these movements, and their symptomatic explanation, we differ entirely from ltemak. The relation, aflirmed by Remak and adopted by Fieber and M. Meyer, of these motor...