Sciatica, lumbago, and brachialgia : their nature and treatment, and their immediate relief and rapid cure by hypodermic injection of morphia / by Henry Lawson.
- Lawson, H. (Henry), -1877.
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sciatica, lumbago, and brachialgia : their nature and treatment, and their immediate relief and rapid cure by hypodermic injection of morphia / by Henry Lawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![to the cord. We see nothing whatever to incline us to the belief that these three varieties of nervous pain have any connec- tion with disease of the central system. And, even were we to accept it as an hypo- thesis, we should still have a difficulty in explaining the subsequent effects. Por it is most remarkable that all of these affections are curable, and yet, if we were to suppose them of central origin rattier than of peri- pheral, we should not perceive so clearly why it was that so severe a disease of the central nervous system should so frequently, in fact so generally, be completely banished. It seems to us that Dr. Anstie is impatient of research. He cannot await the time when the subject of the disease will be made per- fectly clear, and for this reason he is com- pelled to make a very imperfect and unsatis- factory hypothesis do duty for the time. Por example, let us take his remarks on a peculiar form of neuralgia. “Nor are we likely to reach a different con- clusion if we test the matter by the considera- tion of a rarer, but still sufficiently common kind of case, such as I have described in Chap. I., in which a very strong peripheral influence [traumatic] produces neuralgia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28148174_0202.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
