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.
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![accompanied by vaso-motor and secretory phenomena, and by ansestliesia, but not in the district of the painful nerve, hut in the territory of a quite different nerve. How can we doubt, in the case, e. g., of a trigeminal neuralgia thus complicated, the exciting cause of which was a wound of the ulnar nerve, that the morbid influence travelling inwards from the lesion would have passed over with- out any special consequences [as happens in thousands of such nerve wounds], had it not, in its passage along the medulla, encountered a locus minoris resistentice in the roots of the trigeminus ? It seems impossible to account for the phenomena on any other theory. We find it very difficult to imagine how any one conversant with our present great ignorance on the subject of nervous phy- siology, could lend his mind to so wild an hypothesis as that expressed in the above quotation. Not that it is not laid down skil- fully, and with that knowledge of the whole history of facial neuralgia which the author shows the possession of so abundantly. But we cannot understand how a calm, clear reasoner can he so completely mastered by an hypothesis as Dr. Anstie appears to us in the present instance. How does Dr. Anstie prove](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28148174_0203.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
