ABSTRACT
Most of the main facts of nerve distribution and recovery of sensation can be elicited from a study of hospital patients by means of simple tests requiring no undue expenditure of time. The analgesia to prick and other cutaneous painful stimuli lay within the red crosses. The darkness of the affected area is due to its deep red colour compared with the rest of the hand. The greater part of the back of the hand now reacted to the more extreme degrees of cold, and the cold-spots had multiplied greatly. The history of the case may be summed up in the form of the following diary: – On April 23, 1903, the radial (ramus superficialis nervi radialis) and both branches of the external cutaneus (N. cutaneus antibrachii lateralis) were divided in the neighbourhood of the elbow. Both nerves were reunited with silk sutures and the wound healed by first intention.
