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A human experiment in nerve division

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A human experiment in nerve division by W. H .R. Rivers MD FRS, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and Henry Head MD FRS, Physician to the London Hospital, Brain 1908: 31; 323–450

From the history of pretty crazy self experimentation in medicine, a doctor has a cutaneous branch of his own radial nerve surgically cut. He then meticulously documents the progress of nerve regrowth, initial total numbness followed by neuropathic pain, and a partial return of sensation over time

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