Spinal Concussion.
Surgically Considered as a Cause of Spinal Injury, and Neurologically Restricted To a Certain Symptom Group, For Which is Suggested the Designation Erichsen’s Disease, as One Form of the Traumatic Neuroses.
By S. V. Clevenger, M.D., Consulting Physician Reese and Alexian Hospitals; Late Pathologist County Insane Asylum, Chicago, etc.
Special features consist in a description of modern methods of diagnosis by Electricity, a discussion of the controversy concerning hysteria, and the author’s original pathological view that the lesion is one involving the spinal sympathetic nervous system.
Every Physician and Lawyer should own this work.
In one handsome Royal Octavo Volume of nearly 400 pages, with thirty Wood-Engravings.
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This work really does, if we may be permitted to use a trite and hackneyed expression, “fill a long-felt want.” The subject is treated in all its bearings; electro-diagnosis receives a large share of attention, and the chapter devoted to illustrative cases will be found to possess especial importance.—Medical Weekly Review.
COLTMAN
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