Background
Corning, James Leonard was born on August 26, 1855 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review James Leonard and Sarah Ellen (Deming) Corning.
Corning, James Leonard was born on August 26, 1855 in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Review James Leonard and Sarah Ellen (Deming) Corning.
Brother of Frederick Gleason C. Educated Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, New New York University of Heidelberg.
Doctor of Medicine, University of Würzburg, 1878. (honorary Master of Arts, Williams College, 1888.
Doctor of Laws).
Discoverer spinal anæsthesia, 1885. Demonstrated that the action of certain medicinal substances, notably stimulants and sedatives, may be increased and prolonged while subject remains in compressed air. Also first to inject liquid paraffin into the tissues and solidify it in loco.
Consultant in nervous and mental diseases to various hospitals, New New York Author: Carotid Compression, 1882.
Brain Rest, 1883, Brain Exhaustion. Local Anæsthesia, 1886.
Hysteria and Epilepsy, 1888. A Treatise on Headache and Neuralgia, 1888.
Pain in Its Neuro-Pathological and Neuro-Therapeutic Relations, 1894.
Married Julia Crane, May 12, 1883.