Experiments on the restoration of paralysed muscles by means of nerve anastomosis. Part II.—Anastomosis of the nerves supplying limb muscles

Abstract

The part of the research into the anastomosis of nerves dealt with in this paper has reference to the restoration of function of a group of muscles in the limb. Following the early experiment of Flourens, several workers (Rawa, Stefani, Howell and Huber, Cunningham, and the author) published investigations on the effects of nerve crossing, or the division of two nerves in the limb and cross suture of the ends.