On the pathology of the pneumogastric nerve : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1876 ; also, Cold shock in its action on the pneumogastric nerve / by S.O. Habershon.

  • Habershon, S. O. (Samuel Osborne), 1825-1889.
Date:
1885
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Credit: On the pathology of the pneumogastric nerve : being the Lumleian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1876 ; also, Cold shock in its action on the pneumogastric nerve / by S.O. Habershon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These Lectures on the Pneumogastric Nerve have been so favorably received by the profession, that we venture to publish a second edition, as the former one has been for some little time out of print. The symptoms of diseases of the throat, the lungs and the heart, as well as those of the stomach and liver, which are due to the connections of the pneumo- gastric nerve are so varied, that the full description of them would form a treatise on the maladies of the chest and abdomen, and we have therefore refrained from any enlargement of the previous Lectures ; but we have appended a paper that was read before the Medical Society of London, on the effect of Cold Shock upon the branches of the Pneumogastric Nerve. The effect of cold, in an exhausted system, is to produce a condition that may, with some correctness, be designated paralysis of the pneumogastric nerve ; rapid congestion of the lung is induced, aud the patient may die before the ordinary symptoms of in- flammation are developed ; or very severe bronchitis or pneumonia may supervene, and the patient's life is