Excerpt from Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1923, Vol. 9 There are few conditions the physician has to treat which cause So much distress as that of intense pain uncontrolled by drugs. A means of relief in selected cases is afforded by chordotomy. The operation Will not be entirely successful in every case in which it is employed some pain fibers occasionally will escape the knife - but the Operation has now been performed sufficiently often to justify a belief in its efficacy. It is a delicate procedure, requires a skilful technic, and is not to be undertaken lightly by one untrained in the surgery of the spinal Cord. It requires on the part of the Operator a visualization of the microscopic anatomy of the cord, and a realization that a Slight misplacement of the incision may cause motor paralysis of one or both lower limbs, depending on whether the division is unilateral or bilateral. We 1'have written. On this subject previously and therefore do not refer to the literature at the present time. We report in this paper eight cases in Which chordotomy has been performed. All but one have not been reported previously, but in this one case chordotomy for certain reasons mentioned in the notes has been performed three separate times on the same side of the cord. In one case (case the operation was performed to remove the intense hyperesthesia above the anesthetic area produced by transverse myelitis, and was entirely successful. 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.