Neurectasy or nerve-stretching for the relief or cure of pain : being the Bradshaw Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 6th December 1883 / by John Marshall ; with an appendix by the author, dated March 1887 and 12 illustrations by Victor A.H. Horsley.

  • Marshall, John, 1818-1891.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Neurectasy or nerve-stretching for the relief or cure of pain : being the Bradshaw Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 6th December 1883 / by John Marshall ; with an appendix by the author, dated March 1887 and 12 illustrations by Victor A.H. Horsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /^ I iii< 'i'l' w ^^: mmmff ac CO Fig. 12.—Pacinian corpuscle from the epineurium of the human ulnar nerve, just above the elbow. Osmic acid preparation. Magnified about 35 diameters. {Horsley.^ Two nervi nervorum are seen entering it. e, epineurium laminated; c, capsule of the corpuscle; co, central core of the same ; ac, axis-cylinder prolongation of one nerve-fibre, nf. Note.—Owing to the very considerable spiral turn of the fibres at the base of the corpuscle there appears to be a separation of the nerve-fibre from the central core. This, of course, is merely optical. relation to certain neuralgic pains, may now be regarded as having been completely verified. 10. Indications for the performance of the operation of nerve- stretching.—I have nothing to add to this section of the lecture, which was illustrated by actual specimens of disease. 11. Mode of performing the operation of nerve-stretching .—In Hildebrandt's monograph, already referred to, instructions for the exposure of the several nerves likely to require to be thus operated on are given at length, with illustrations ; but to a surgeon who is also an anatomist, such lessons are superfluous. Professor Keen approves of the use of the hooks with which to make traction, and in operations on small nerves (it was the