nerve-trunks

N.P. on the spine, near its upper end, and then manipulate with P.P. from the lower part upward over the back, sides, abdomen and chest, our current strikes into the surface extremities of the nerves at every point where the electrode touches, and makes its way upwards, along the nerve-lines, to the great spinal cord under the N.P. -- thus replenishing with fresh electricity all the ganglions, plexuses and nerve-trunks along the way.

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark

Now, when the part is cut off, the nerve-trunks which led to it and from it, remaining capable of being impressed by irritations, are made to convey to the brain from the stump impressions which are as usual referred by the brain to the lost parts, to which these nerve-threads belonged.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

That powers so rare do not originate in the bones, ligaments, muscles, or fats, does not need argument; that when the nerve-trunks that supply the arm or leg are severed power of movement and feeling is lost, is known to all; and equally would the power of the stomach be abolished were the nerve-trunks cut off.

The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

Neuritis is an inflammation of the nerve-trunks with pain, specially intensified by pressure.

Massage and the Original Swedish Movements 1918

They were the first to discover that the nerve-trunks have their origin in the brain and spinal cord, and they are credited also with the discovery that these nerve-trunks are of two different kinds -- one to convey motor, and the other sensory impulses.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

He had rightly pointed out that nerves were merely connections between the brain and spinal-cord and distant muscles and organs, and had recognized that there were two kinds of nerves, but his explanation of the action of these nerves was that ` ` nervous spirits '' were carried to the cavities of the brain by blood-vessels, and from there transmitted through the body along the nerve-trunks.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

Acting upon this information, Galen applied stimulating remedies to the source of the nerve itself -- that is, to the bundle of nerve-trunks known as the brachial plexus, in the shoulder.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904

Now, when the part is cut off, the nerve-trunks which led to it and from it, remaining capable of being impressed by irritations, are made to convey to the brain from the stump impressions which are, as usual, referred by the brain to the lost parts to which these nerve-threads belonged.

The Autobiography of a Quack 1899

[26] To give you an idea of what real things nerve-trunks are, this sciatic nerve is as large as a small clothes-line, or, more accurately, as a carpenter's lead pencil, and so strong that when the surgeon cuts down upon it and stretches it to cure a very bad case of sciatica, he can lift the lower half of the body clear of the table by it.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

The tendon cords, which are the ropes with which the muscles work the joint pulleys, were actually included under one head with the less numerous but almost equally large and tough cords of grayer color, flatter outline, and less glistening hue, which were afterwards found to be nerve-trunks.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896