Brain/Volume 31/Part 3/A Human Experiment in Nerve Division

by W. H. R. Rivers and Henry Head

[November, 1908.]

Brain.

Part III, 1908.

Original Articles and Clinical Cases.

A Human Experiment in Nerve Division.

By W. H. R. Rivers, M.D., F.R.S.,
Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge;

and

Henry Head, M.D., F.R.S.,
Physician to the London Hospital.

1. Chapter I.—History of the Case.
2. Chapter II.—Methods of Examination.
3. Chapter III.—The Phenomena of Deep Sensibility.
4. Chapter IV.—Protopathic Sensibility.
1. Section 1.—Borders of Dissociated Sensibility.
2. Section 2.—Pain.
3. Section 3.—Heat and Cold.
4. Section 4.—Hair-Sensibility.
5. Section 5.—The Sensibility of the Glans penis.
5. Chapter V.—Epicritic Sensibility.
1. Section 1.—Tactile Sensibility.
2. Section 2.—Thermal Sensibility.
3. Section 3.—The Compass-Test.
4. Section 4.—The Sensibility of the Triangle.
6. Chapter VI.—Trophic, Vasomotor, and Pilomotor Changes.
1. Section 1.—Vasomotor and Trophic Disturbances of the Skin.
2. Section 2.—The Pilomotor Reflex.
7. Chapter VII.—Adaptation to Heat and Cold.
8. Chapter VIII.—Localization and Spacial Discrimination.
9. Chapter IX.—Intensity.
10. Chapter X.—Punctate Sensibility.
1. Section 1.—Heat- and Cold-Spots.
2. Section 2.—Pain-Spots.
3. Section 3.—Touch-Spots.
11. Chapter XI.—General Theoretical Conclusions.
1. Section 1.—The Integration of Afferent Impulses.
2. Section 2.—Sensory and Non-sensory Afferent Impulses.
12. References.