An exposition of the symptoms, essential nature, and treatment of neuropathy, or nervousness / by James Manby Gully.

  • Gully, James Manby, 1808-1883.
Date:
1837
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    account in the language of the office of this exten- sive and important nervous system. Not less valuable, however, are the facts and arguments advanced by my late learned and lamented friend, Dr. John Fletcher, in his “ Rudiments of Physi- ology;” a work which, if placed in the hands of physiological students previous to their entering on the consideration of the particular functions, would preclude many of the crudities that abound in their opinions concerning the latter. Lobstein’s work, also, “ De Nervo Sympathetico,” is a splendid instance of laborious research and accurate deduc- tion. From the physiological ideas, therefore, of these writers, I have reasoned and applied them to the explanation of the pathological states treated of. The indications of treatment have been founded on the phenomena of the disease, as well as on the doctrine of their essential nature. I have rather attached myself to the general means of acting on the latter, than to the particularization of the nu- merous remedies that have been administered for the relief of the individual symptoms; the principles on which classes of remedies are applied are rather dwelt upon than the particular remedies them- selves, the proposed end being rather to elucidate than to expatiate. J. M. GULLY. 37, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, May 1, 1037.