. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. or mental have been obtained by thepersistent application of electricity—the continued current to the af-fected muscles and the inducedcurrent to their antagonists. My-otomy has been recommended, buthas seldom been of benefit. In cer-tain cases very successful resultshave followed the use of hypoder-mic injections of morphine contin-ued for a considerable length oftime in increasing doses; but thepractitioner should weigh well thepossibility of
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. or mental have been obtained by thepersistent application of electricity—the continued current to the af-fected muscles and the inducedcurrent to their antagonists. My-otomy has been recommended, buthas seldom been of benefit. In cer-tain cases very successful resultshave followed the use of hypoder-mic injections of morphine contin-ued for a considerable length oftime in increasing doses; but thepractitioner should weigh well thepossibility of establishing the opium habit before resort-ing to so dangerous a remedy. Massage of the affectedmuscles is useful. Attempts have been made to restrainthe movements of the head by mechanical support, buthave been unavailing, the irritation of the apparatusseeming even to increase the spasmodic may be found an efficient remedy in some plan of treatment be pursued, in order to besuccessful, it should be adopted in the very incipiency ofthe disease and persistently followed up. Finally, in cer-. Fig. 3951.—Apparatus forthe Correction of Torti-collis complicated withScoliosis. tain rebellious cases which had resisted all other methodsof treatment, a cure has been obtained by resection of aportion of the spinal accessory nerve close to the pointwhere it enters the muscle. Stretching of the same nervehas been recommended, but the operation of resectionwould seem preferable. Thomas L. Stedman. TRACHELORRHAPHY ; HYSTERO - TRACHELOR-RHAPHY. By hystero-trachelorrhaphy we mean a plas-tic operation devised by Thomas Addis Emmet for therestoration of a lacerated cervix uteri. The operation istermed by some authors tracheoplasty, but it is prob-ably better to adhere to the term by which it is moregenerally known. Although the operation, as performedby Emmet and his pupils, has varied very little from theoriginal method, others have introduced some modifi
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