On the influence of the cervical portions of the sympathetic nerve and spinal cord upon the eye and its appendages, illustrated by clinical cases, with observations / by John W. Ogle.

  • John Ogle
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1858
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Credit: On the influence of the cervical portions of the sympathetic nerve and spinal cord upon the eye and its appendages, illustrated by clinical cases, with observations / by John W. Ogle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE CERVICAL PORTIONS OF THE SYMPATHETIC NERVE AND SPINAL CORD UPON THE EYE AND ITS APPENDAGES, ILLUSTRATED BY CLINICAL CASES, WITH OBSERVATIONS. BV JOHN W. OGLE, M.D., FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS; ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO ST. George's hospital. Received June 17tli.—Head Jane 22d, 1858. Of late years direct and rigorous experiment has done much in placing us in possession of more correct ideas respecting many parts of the human frame, and especially of the nervous system. Objections, however, have been entertained against the conclusiveness of experiments upon healthy animals as illustrative of morbid actions in man; and these objections may be reduced to three in number. First, the supposed essential difference between results obtained experimentally and those consequent upon disease in man; secondly, the great and almost insuperable liability to implicate numei'ous and important parts in the attempt to arrive by operation at any given structure, thus compli- cating the very subject which we are striving to render clear; and thirdly, the modification of results obtained, owing to unavoidable hjeraorrhage and the exhaustion of sensibility. It is as regards the comparative freedom from the last two objections that experiments upon the sympathetic nerve in the region of the neck, the properties and anatomical con-
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