Corning, Brain Exhaustion, 1884

Brain Exhaustion, with Some Preliminary Considerations on Cerebral Dynamics. By J. Leonard Corning, M. D., Formerly resident assistant physician to the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane; fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the Medical Society of the County of New York, of the Physicians’ Mutual Aid Association, of the New York Neurological Society, of the New York Medico-Legal Society, and of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence; physician to the New York Neurological Infirmary, Etc. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street. 1884. 
 
Green cloth with gold text on front board and spine. Old library sticker at head of spine. Brown end papers (with ink and pencil notations on ffep). Library stamp on title. Mild toning. Corners slightly creased. Clean and tight throughout. 234 plus three leaves of ads at rear. 
 
James Leonard Corning (1855-1923): See G-M 5680: “Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between the spinous processes of the lower dorsal vertebrae in a dog (see his earlier paper in the same journal, 1885, 42, 317-19) and then in a human being.”