In the course of many sympathectomies Sweet and I 8 have allowed the patient to awake and have then stimulated the thoracic and lumbar ganglia and the splanchnic nerves. When stimulation is ...

IN November, 1933, Max M. Peet1 performed his first splanchnic section for hypertension. The patient was an extremely sick twenty-nine-year-old man, whose blood pressure did not drop below 260 syst ...