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SYMPATHETIC ACTIVITY IN CERTAIN DISEASES, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION
W. J. MERLE SCOTT, M.D.;
JOHN J. MORTON, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1931;48(6):1065-1097.
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Fundamental facts concerning the anatomy and the physiology of the sympathetic nervous system lay dormant for many decades. At the end of the nineteenth century, several attempts were made to influence the course of epilepsy, exophthalmic goiter and glaucoma by interrupting or excising parts of the cervical sympathetic chain. These efforts had been almost forgotten, owing to the poor results achieved, when, in 1916, Jonnesco attracted the attention of the medical world by performing cervical sympathectomy for angina pectoris. The interest in the removal of the sympathetic influence was greatly quickened by Leriche's work on periarterial sympathectomy, which he first employed in 1917 in the treatment for causalgia and in subsequent years for other conditions attributed to vasomotor disturbances. The eradication of visceral pain by interrupting sympathetic impulses, either temporarily as a diagnostic measure or permanently at operation, further attracted attention in recent years to this system. This interest, however,
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Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
From the Department of Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 11, 1931.
Permission for publication given by the Committee on the Mary Scott Newbold Lecture.
Twenty-Fifth Mary Scott Newbold Lecture, presented before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 1931.
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