We have never suggested this work as a panacea, but finding it helpful in the treatment of human ills, we consider it an asset to our knowledge of medicine and surgery, and have been glad to offer it gratuitously to physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and to all who can make use of it in the relief of afflicted humanity.
Valens Metronomic Interrupter (Style D)
(For Producing Dr. White’s Pulsoidal Current)
Fig. 33.
CHAPTER 18. FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
When “Professor” Robert Fitzsimmons delivered the famous punch in the solar plexus that laid the mighty James Corbett upon whatever it is they cover a boxing ring with, he demonstrated to everybody’s satisfaction—except perhaps Mr. Corbett’s—that there is a group of nerves in the “pit of the stomach” which has an intimate and most distressful connection with the brain. And now every doctor knows the functions and connections of the pneumogastric nerve.
Gunmen, pugilists, and “bouncers” also know that if the temple, or the angle of the jaw, be even lightly “tapped,” the tappee is usually placed hors de combat for an appreciable period of time. General knowledge of this weighty academic subject is comparatively recent—as time is reckoned.