Case of a wounded nerve, followed by severe consequences, and cured by removing the wounded portion of the nerve / [George Bell].

  • Bell, George
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[1826]
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    ^asc of a Wounded Nerve, followed by severe consequences, and cured by removing the wounded portion of the Nerve. By George Bell, Esq. F. R. S. E., Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Edinburgh and London, Surgeon Ex¬ traordinary to the King, and Surgeon in Ordinary to His Ma¬ jesty’s Household for Scotland. The affections and injuries of the Nerves, including contu- ions, wounds, and the different varieties of tic douloureux, (/hich fall, almost exclusively, under the care of the surgeon, iave always excited much interest and anxiety, both in the pa- nent and practitioner, not only in consequence of the extreme »ain usually accompanying them, and the uncertainty of the afluence of the remedies employed, but of the long continuance If the symptoms, the ill health, and sometimes the fatal conse- uences resulting from them. As the older anatomists were unacquainted with the minute natomy of the nervous system, we need not be surprised that le contemporary surgeons should be ignorant of its pathology ; nd, therefore, that their treatment of its chirurgical diseases 'lould be conducted upon almost empirical principles. Thus ~e find a fr umber of detached cases, dispersed in various books F general surgery, as well as in the Ephemerides and other pe- .odical publications on the Continent, and in this country, eated as diseases or injuries of the nerves, where, in fact, the iseases ought, in many instances, to have been sought for in le veins, the aponeurotic expansion, or in an erysipelatous af- iction of some other tissue. But the indefatigable exertions, id accurate investigations of Wrisberg, Monro, Reil, and her great anatomists of the last century, followed, more lately, y the researches of Bichat, Sir Everard Home, Scarpa, Mr harles Bell, and others, have cleared away many of the diffi- rlties connected with the anatomy, and rendered the pathology the tissues so intelligible, that we may not despair of seeing lie treatment of chirurgical diseases, and affections of the nerves, educed to as great a degree of simplicity, and to as fixed prin- iples, as many others coming under the care of the surgeon, •lore especially, I cannot help anticipating great improve- sents, not only in the chirurgical but in the medical treatment nervous affections, from the labours of Mr Charles Bell, ihen his exposition of the nervous system comes to be general- read and understood *. ----- ---- See Exposition of the Nervous System, by Charles Bell. London, 1824.