Diagnostic, Prognostic and Therapeutic Nerve Blocks

Through many experimental and clinical studies, both in this country and abroad, there has evolved a technic for injecting, without open section, the majority of the important components of the nervous system. With this accepted and definite technic available, regional anesthesia became increasingly efficient and popular. Another result has been the application of these practices as a valuable adjunct to the practice of medicine and surgery along diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic lines. Just now, numerous conditions are being made the recipients of these methods the reported results of which are frequently contradictory and confusing. I shall here attempt, by a review of the literature on the subject, together with personal observations covering two years of its use, to estimate its present status. It is not within the scope of this paper to consider personal or reported statistics; the results shall be considered in a general way alone. TECHNIC The technic