The motive power of the human system : with the duodynamic symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases / by H.H. Sherwood ; revised by H.H. Sherwood's successor, William Larned.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1850
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    and now that three more editions have been exhausted, and a seventh has become in urgent demand, we think it proper to add the following pertinent and gratftying facts that have ad interim transpired. The direct connection which we traced, many years since, between the posterior spinal nerves and the ganglionic or sympathetic system of nerves, and which has been denied and ridiculed by the great and little Solomons of the profession, has been demonstrated by Volkman and Bidder, the distinguished German anatomists, who distinctly traced it with the microscope. Thus the symptoms of disease, developed by pressure on the intervertebral spaces of the spinal column, upon which the author has successfully practised for much more than a quarter of a century, and which he has taught in this and many previous publications^ are now conclusively established by other evidence and authority ; and it will soon be seen that the pathoiogy, treatment, and remedies, which we have so long adopted, in consonance with our knowledge of these symptoms, will be confirmed also, as appropriate and indispensable. Indeed, we may triumphantly claim that this confirmation has been achieved already, by the indubitable test of the electro-magnetic ma- chine, now in very extensive use, and for a knowledge of which we refer the reader to our little work entitled A Manual for Magnetising with the Rotary and Vibratory Magnetic Machine, in the Duodynamic Treatment of Diseases, sixth edition, enlarged. As an additional corroboration of our views concerning the extensive range of tuberculation in the system, and its almost universal prevalence under various aspects of disease, we insert, in the present edition, an article entitled Physiological and Pathological Researches on Tuber- culosis, by H. Lebert, M. D., from Muller's Archives. Still more interesting, to many readers, is the evidence which we pre- sent, in an extract from the Animal Kingdom of Emanuel Sweden- borg, that this celebrated and truly wonderful writer was familiar with the laws of physiological magnetism, which we have hitherto advanced in utter unconsciousness of the existence of any such exalted authority in their support, and as the fruits of our own researches alone.