The surgery of the sympathetic nervous system

The value attributed to operations on the sympathetic nervous system has waxed and waned from the time when Leriche first described periarterial sympathectomy. This type of sympathectomy is now practically never employed and indications for sympathectomy in general have varied, but we believe that we now have a clear understanding of the place of this operation in therapy, and our knowledge of the physiology of the sympathetic system is based on surer grounds than in past years.

A journal article on the surgery of the "sympathetic nervous system."