Excerpt from A Treatise on Neuralgic Diseases: Dependent Upon Irritation of the Spinal Marrow and Ganglia of the Sympathetic Nerve The same pathological principle is, I believe, equally applicable to the sympathetic system of nerves; and although it may be difficult to establish this opinion by actual experiment, yet I think it may be rested upon a well-grounded analogy, which will justify us in regard ing the nervous masses of the ganglionic system as bear ing the same relation to the nerves derived from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.