Lectures on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Nervous Affections - Tapa blanda

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. 1868 Excerpt: ... DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. LECTUEB I. ON THE CAUSES AND DIAGNOSIS OF FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. Existence of special conductors for the various kinds of sensations, and for voluntary and involuntary movements of muscles and blood-vessels, &c.--Dilatation of blood-vessels due to nerves of nutrition and secretion.--Variety of effects produced by an irritation of the same centripetal nerve, illustrated by the morbid effects caused by a neuralgia, and by those of an excitation of the skin of the neck by cold air, and of the tickling of the soles of the feet.--Causes of increase of excitability in the various parts of the nervous system.--Extent of the normal and morbid influences of the nervous system on nutrition and secretion.--Three fundamental causes of disease in the various organs.--Diagnosis of functional and organic nervous affections. Gentlemen,--In this and in the next three lectures I intend to call your attention to the most important advances in our knowledge of the causes, the diagnosis, and particularly the treatment, of functional nervous affections, leaving for the succeeding lectures the special study of each of these affections. I. REMARKS ON THE KINDS OF NERVE-FIBRES, THE IRRITATION OF "WHICH MAY PRODUCE NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. One of the most interesting of the recent advances in Physiology and Pathology consists in the demonstration, that the nervous conductors serving to the following functions--the transmission of the various kinds of sensitive impressions, the reflex phenomena, the conveyance of nervous force to muscles or to blood-vessels, &c.--are absolutely distinct, one from the others, as regards their special function. There is no contradiction between this assertion and the important facts discovered ...