Experimental Studies of Nerve Impulses*
Authors: HIRAM BYRD
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1931)

Article1 February 1931Experimental Studies of Nerve ImpulsesAn Attempted Correlation Between Physiology and SymptomatologyHIRAM BYRD, M. D., WALLACE BYRD, A. B.HIRAM BYRD, M. D.Search for more papers by this author, WALLACE BYRD, A. B.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-4-8-1020 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe list of independent observers who have recorded the arrest of remote dysfunctions by the interception of nerve impulses passing the sphenopalatine ganglion1,2,* has become so extensive, and the number of instances so great that it may seem a threshing out of old straw to emphasize the causal relationship involved. It is the mechanism which challenges inquiry. However, analysis of the mechanism is best begun by a careful scrutiny of the factual basis and the logical groundwork.That these phenomena could be interpreted as due to systemic action of the drug or to psychic reaction of the patient may be...Bibliography1 BYRDBYRD HW: Sphenopalatine Phenomena, Present Status of Knowledge of. Arch. Int. Med. (in press.) Google Scholar2 BYRDBYRD HW: Sphenopalatine Treatment in Affections of the Trunk and Extremities. Google Scholar3 EWING AE: Pain of Acute Glaucoma Relieved by Cocaine Applied to Meckel's Ganglion. Amer. J. Ophth., Dec. '08. Google Scholar4 RANSOM SW: The Anatomy of the Nervous System. W. B. Saunders Co., 1923, pp. 54-55. Google Scholar5 HOWELL WH: A Text Book of Physiology. Google Scholar6 EVANS CA: Address of the President, Section I, Physiology. Brit. Assn. Adv. Sci., 1928; Science, Sept. 21, '28. Google Scholar7 ADSONBROWN AWGE: Treatment of Raynaud's Disease by Lumbar Ramisection and Ganglionectomy and Perivascular Sympathetic Neurectomy of Common Iliacs. J. A. M. A., 84: 1908-1910 (June 20) 1925. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8 SLUDER G: Nasal Neurology, Headaches and Eye Disorders. C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1927. Google Scholar9 GUNDRUM LK: Asthma and Eczema Controlled Throught Nasal Ganglion. Ann. Clin. Med., 4:572-573, Jan., '26. Google Scholar10 BRANDON WR: Contractured Ulnar Paralysis Relieved by Treatment of the Nasal Ganglion. Arch. Otolar, 4:493-494, 1926. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11 BYRD H: Chorea. Arch. Otolar, 7:257-258, (March), 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12 CRILE GW: A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes. The MacMillan Co., 1926. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: HIRAM BYRD, M. D.; WALLACE BYRD, A. B.Affiliations: Detroit, Michigan*From the Jefferson Clinic and Diagnostic Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.*It should be noted that no dysfunction has been found, all cases of which are arrestible by this procedure. Although it has not yet been possible to subject to statistical analysis the proportion of cases thus relievable through the list of some seventy dysfunctions now recorded, it may nevertheless be observed that this ratio is quite variable in one dysfunction as compared with another. For example, in lumbago an ample majority of cases are relieved, and in most of these cases the relief lasts indefinitely, while in sciatica and many other dysfunctions only a minority of cases respond—perhaps a fourth or a fifth, and in these the relief is a little less likely to be permanent. Since some cases of so many maladies are relievable, however, the procedure is one of large therapeutic value. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byAsthma bronchiale 1 February 1931Volume 4, Issue 8Page: 1020-1027KeywordsAction potentialsDrugsHospitals ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1931 PDF downloadLoading ...