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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![Dr. Puller’s experience of acupuncture seems to have been somewhat satisfactory. It has not been so with us. He has seen one case imme- diately cured by it, and two others more slowly relieved; but he says no more of successful re- sults, from which we draw no very favourable conclusion. On the general treatment, the author says nothing at all about electricity; hut on the medicinal part of the subject he observes that his mainstay is opium. With this opinion we heartily agree. Indeed, there is no one who has treated sciatica with whose opinion we so fully concur as Dr. Puller, and on this point especially, that while he recommends other medicines as having uses of their own, and as being sometimes advisable, he, above all others, leans on opium as the special remedy of the disease. Hyoscyamus and Conium, Cannabis indica. Stramonium, and Belladonna, he speaks of as having each of them special virtues; but it is upon opium that he rests the cure of his cases of sciatica pure and simple. It is much to Dr. Puller’s praise that he, at so early a period as the publication of the work entitled “ Bheumatism, Bheumatic Gout, and Sciatica,” [I860,] should have recommended subcutaneous injection ; and though he speaks](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28148174_0210.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
