Nerve Route Hypothesis Revived
Abstract
A voice from the past encouraged formulation of a hypothesis concerning taste, lacrimation, and facial pain, a New England physician told the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Ernest Sachs, Jr, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, Dartmouth Medical School and Hitchcock Clinic, Hanover, NH, said that in sectioning the nervus intermedius between the VII and VIII cranial nerves of a woman with atypical facial neuralgia, the patient (under local anesthesia) inadvertently...