Diseases of Nerves

This companion to volume 8 contains 24 chapters, the first several of which deal with the development, chemical composition, and physiology of the peripheral nervous system by Wolfgang Wechsler, John S. O'Brien, and Sidney Ochs, respectively. Thereafter the chapters are devoted to subjects of clinical interest. The methods and results of testing of neuromuscular transmission and the measurement of nerve conduction velocities by J. E. Desmedt and S. Borenstein and by H. E. Kaesar are definitive and offer the clinician an exhaustive consideration of these useful procedures. Kaesar provides the reader with comprehensive tables for comparing motor nerve conduction velocities, distal latencies, amplitude, and duration of muscle action potentials not only for the ulnar, median, peroneal, and posterior tibial but for muscles of the shoulder girdle, the ischial nerve, the facial, the vagus, accessory, hypoglossal, phrenic, intercostal, and femoral nerves as well. He includes summary tables of the normal nerve