Prize dissertations ... First, on the effects of motion and rest, and their several modes of application in surgery. Secondly, on the various effects of counter-strokes on the human body, and the methods of relieving them / by M. David ; translated from the original French, with copious additional annotations, by J.O. Justamond.

Date:: M.DCC.XC [1790]

Credit: Prize dissertations ... First, on the effects of motion and rest, and their several modes of application in surgery. Secondly, on the various effects of counter-strokes on the human body, and the methods of relieving them / by M. David ; translated from the original French, with copious additional annotations, by J.O. Justamond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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BY THE AUTHOR. («) lO the obfervations contained in Monsieur Quesnay’s Memoir upon Wounds of the Brain, (printed in the firft volume of the Memoirs of the Academy of Surgery,) where this fad is eftablifhed, may be added, the obfervation of a rod of iron having palled through the brain, with- out caufing the death of the patient—Journal de Medecine9] Auguft 1777. (b) The ganglions of the cervical and intercoftal nerves, and of thofe which are placed in the cavity of the abdomen, are they not, as Mr. Le Cat has averted, with fo much probability, in his differtation on the nervous fluid, which obtained the premium at Berlin, in 1757; are they not particular organs, in which the fluid undergoes elaborations, and receives qualities relative to the fundions of each of the vifcera, to which the nervous filaments proceeding from thefe ganglions are diftri- buted ? K 2 (c) I mean

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