Paper, 'The abductor and adductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve' by J S [James Samuel] Risien Russell

Description

Russell writes: 'While engaged in certain experimental investigations in connexion with the cervical nerve roots of the dog (‘Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ 1892), the ease with which I found one could separate, in a nerve root, the different bundles of nerve fibres which are concerned with one function from those concerned with another, or even a bundle of nerve fibres destined for the supply of one muscle from one destined for the supply of another, led me to suppose that by exercising sufficient care, it might be possible to separate, in the same way, the abductor from the adductor fibres in the recurrent laryngeal nerve. It is a matter of clinical and pathological experience (Semon, Rosenbach) that in organic and progressive affections of this nerve the abductor fibres are prone to succumb before the adductors; but why this should be so is not at all clear.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology

Received 17 March 1892. Read 31 March 1892. Communicated by Victor Horsley.

A version of this paper was published in volume 51 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The abductor and adductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve'.

Reference number

PP/19/9

Earliest possible date

1892

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

35 pages

Format

Typescript