Excerpt from Serology of Nervous and Mental DiseasesThe credit for first withdrawing cerebrospinal ¿uid from a patient ought, properly, by right of priority, to go to an American physician, Dr. J. L. Corning, who performed the puncture in Essex Wynter conceived the plan of diminishing intracranial pressure by performing ventricular puncture. Later, in a patient in whom the fontanels had prematurely closed, and it was desirable to diminish the ...
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