A human experiment in nerve division
A human experiment in nerve division
academic.oup.com A human experiment in nerve division by W. H .R. Rivers MD FRS, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Henry Head MD FRS, Physician to the London Hospital, Brain 1908: 31; 323ā450
Despite having studied in detail the symptoms and signs of recovery from peripheral nerve injury in patients at the London Hospital with Mr James Sherren,
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From the history of pretty crazy self experimentation in medicine, a doctor has a cutaneous branch of his own radial nerve surgically cut. He then meticulously documents the progress of nerve regrowth, initial total numbness followed by neuropathic pain, and a partial return of sensation over time
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