Nerve-vibration and excitation as agents in the treatment of functional disorder and organic disease.

  • Granville, J. Mortimer (Joseph Mortimer), 1833-1900.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Nerve-vibration and excitation as agents in the treatment of functional disorder and organic disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in London, to whom my percuteurs were submitted long before the experiments, upon which M. Boudet de Paris founded his paper, were undertaken. As a matter of fact, nerve-vibration by percussion, with instruments furnished by myself, was tried at the National Hospital in Queen Square, London, in January and February, 1878. The following is a note furnished to me by one of the medical officers of the institution at that date :— A medical man complained of neuralgic pain in his right internal cutaneous nerve, resulting, as he supposed, from a blow by a cricket ball. The pain came on at varying intervals, and during the intervals he could produce it by squeezing the site of the blow. The application of the instrument entirely stopped the pain and, much to his surprise, for a few minutes after he was unable to reproduce it. These experiments were repeated twenty or thirty times with the same result.''' The percuteur with which these experiments were per- formed, Was made for me by Mr. Streeter, of New Bond Street, from drawings dated Jan. 5, 1877. Later on, but still long before the researches of M. Vigouroux and M. Boudet de Paris, my percuteurs were on trial at the Laennec Hospital, and the hospital of St. Anne, by the courtesy of Professor Ball. Professor Brown-Sequard affirmed my claim to priority before the Biological Society of Paris ; Professor Ball did the same in UEncepJiale; and Dr. Oscar Jennings addressed the following letter to Le Progres Medical, calling forth the annexed rejoinder from M. Boudet de Paris :—