An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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HUNTER, John Irvine

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The influence of the sympathetic nervous system in the genesis of the rigidity of striated muscle in a spastic paralysis.

Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 39, 721-43, 1924.

Hunter believed in the sympathetic innervation of skeletal muscle and on this assumption devised the technique of sympathetic ramisection carried out by Royle (No. 4894). Biography by M.J. Blunt, Sydney, 1985.



Subjects: NEUROSURGERY