Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.

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It is observed, that where arsenic is resorted to, as aid in the treatment of some obstinate neuralgias, its curative effects oper- ate uniformly most favorably on persons who are of lax fibre, and have a languid state of the circulation, whose secretions are rather profuse, urine is pale and plentiful, and whose skin is moist and cold. In such persons, it not only aids in the relief of the neuralgic pains, but it actually improves the general Fig. 68. A View of the Facial Nerve, together with the branches of tho Cervical Plexus. 1. The Facial Nerve or Portia Dura, es- caping from the Stylo-Mastoid Fo- ramen. The Parotid Gland has been removed to show this. 2. The Posterior Auricular Branch of the Facial. 3. The Stylo-Hyoid Branch. 4. The Pes Anserinus. 5. Temporal Branches of the Facial Nerve. 6. Malar Branches. 7. Cervico-Facial Branches. 8. Supra-Orbital Nerve. 9. Sub-Cutaneous Mate, a branch of the Superior Maxillary. 10. The Infra-Orbital Nerve, or second branch of the Fifth Pair. 11. Terminal Branches of the Inferior Den- tal Nerve, called Mental. 12. Nervus Auricularius of the Cervical Plexus. 13. The Superficialis Colli Nerve. 14. The Plexus formed by the last-named nerve and the branches of the Fa- cial. 15. Occipitalis Minor Branch of the Cervi- cal Plexus. 16. Descending Branches of the Cervical Plexus. 17. The Phrenic Nerve. 18. The Nervus Accessorius of the Eighth Pair. 19. The Great or Posterior Occipital Nerve.