Excerpt from A Contribution to the Subject of Nerve-StretchingReprinted from the journal OF nervous and mental disease, Vol. Ix, no. I, January, 1882.Already established as a justifiable procedure in chronic sciatica and painful contractures, attention has been seriously directed during the last year to the treatment of locomotor ataxy by nerve-stretching. More than two dozen cases are on record in which remarkable benefit has been derived from stretching the sciatic nerve. And though the limited number Of cases and the length Of time that has elapsed since the Operations do not yet warrant a final and general conclusion as to ultimate recovery, it must, nevertheless, be conceded that the opera tion in question has effected more than any previously known method Of treatment. And we may note in passing that, in case the method should become established, it would be not a little curious that a disease. Which had been assailed by almost all known pharmaceutic remedies should at last yield, if even in a limited percentage of cases, to a simple surgical procedure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.