James Leonard Corning

James Leonard Corning (* 1855 in Stamford (Connecticut), † 1923) was an American neurologist.

After the outbreak of the American Civil War ( 1861) moved Corning's family to Germany, where he studied chemistry at Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute, Physiology and Pathology in Heidelberg in Würzburg. After the license to practice medicine in 1878 was followed by stays in Vienna, Paris and London. After returning to the United States, Corning specializing in nervous diseases, for which he has published numerous articles and several books.

Corning is mainly known for his attempts at spinal anesthesia, which he performed in New York in 1885. His experiments in which he injected rückenmarksnah cocaine, are considered the first publication on the principle of spinal anesthesia. Whether, in fact succeeded, is controversial. Following the publication of August Bier, who performed a spinal anesthetic in 1898 in Kiel, a controversy surrounding the first successful anesthetic procedure of this kind, which claimed both beer and Corning developed. Today, Corning is credited with the creation of the experimental and theoretical conditions for spinal anesthesia, Beer successful application and subsequent establishment of the procedure in the clinic.

One then flow following, who looked at an increased blood flow to the brain as the cause of seizures, Corning developed in the 1880s, several instruments for compression of the carotid artery. These appliances included, among other things, a fork-like compression tool for acute attack treatment, and an adjustable belt- like instrument, which should be fully serve the neck for permanent compression for prophylactic treatment. Corning meant thereby to achieve a reduction of seizure duration and seizure frequency. He developed this approach later in combination with other methods for the reduction of cerebral blood flow ( such as a transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve ) on. Side effects of this at the end of the 19th century abandoned treatment methods were bradycardia, dizziness, and syncope.

Bibliography

  • Brain moiety. New York: G. P. Putnam 's Sons, 1883
  • Brain exhaustion, with some preliminary considerations on cerebral dynamics. New York: D. Appleton, 1884
  • Local anesthesia in general medicine and surgery, being the practical application of the author's recent discoveries. New York: D. Appleton, 1885
  • A treatise on headache and neuralgia, including spinal irritation and a disquisition on normal and morbid sleep. New York: EB Treat, 1888
  • A treatise on hysteria and epilepsy, with some concluding observations on epileptic insomnia. Detroit: GS Davis, 1888
  • Pain in its neuro- pathological, diagnostic, medico -legal and neuro- therapeutic relations. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1894

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  • Neurologist
  • Physician (19th century)
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1855
  • Died in 1923
  • Man
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