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Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences
Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences Author:Silas Weir Mitchell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Subjects: Nervous system Peripheral nerves Medical / Neurology Medical / Neuroscience Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X. TREATMENT. Compression. -- The treatment of compression is obviously the simple one of removing the cause, which in examples of intra-pelvic pressure is often beyond our power. Cases of compression due to disturbances arising out of the altered mechanical relations of a diseased nerve during motion, are best treated by passive movements and the most gentle but thorough shampooing; while if there should seem to be, at any stage of the case, an inflammatory state of nerve, absolute rest, enforced by a splint, with the usual treatment for neuritis, are required. Contusions. -- Contusions of nerves, when severe, are apt to be followed in a few days by slight numbness and pricking, and when these are associated with growing tenderness over the nerve track, the physician should promptly interfere, since he may feel sure he has to deal either with the commencement of a neuritis, or of that sclerotic state of nerve which may or may not be of inflammatory origin. In either case, the nerve can sometimes be felt in thin persons as a firm cord, not always entirely regular in size. As I have said before, these consequences may follow contusion of nerves at dates as distant as weeks or months, and may give rise finally to the most deplorable results. In a certain number of contusions the evil is most insidious, and, whatever be the pathological condition, it may result in large functional losses without any notable ( 229 ) warning in the way o...« less