Injuries of nerves and their consequences - Reflex Sympathetic ...

228 INJURIES OF NERVES.
The contracted state of the atrophied muscles also
comes into the case to make its future less hopeful, and
the reader will see, therefore, why I think it needful in
ever}"
instance to exercise an amount of caution as to
prognosis which might at first sight seem scarcely warranted.
At the same time I may add, that in the interval
of three or four years, the gradual change which may
occur in the worst of these cases is so great and so beneficial
that only a careful study of many of them, with a
comparison made from my note-books, could have induced
me to credit the degree of restoration which time
may bring about.
In proof of this statement, the reader
is referred to the cases appended to the chapters upon
Treatment.
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