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Brain 2009 132(11):2903-2905; doi:10.1093/brain/awp288
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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; 323–450

Alastair Compston

Cambridge

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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, Dr Head knows that much of importance is missing from these accounts. Moreover, Dr Rivers—who has advised Sherren and Head on psychophysical aspects of their work throughout—is frustrated by the relative paucity of his own observations. The solution is simple. Dr Rivers will cut and suture all cutaneous branches of Dr Head's radial nerve at the left elbow sparing any muscular innervations and, together, they will study the patterns of recovery. Surgery takes place on 25 April 1903 in the house of Mr Dean, with Mr Sherren assisting.

Continuing with his practice at the London Hospital but travelling to Cambridge for examination in Dr Rivers's College room at weekends—in order to avoid ‘the ordinary distractions of a busy life ... fatal to the detachment required . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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