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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![neuralgia.” His remarks on this part of the subject occupy some sixty or more pages, and though we cannot dilate upon them here, they will well repay those who are engaged in the study of the pathology of neuralgia generally. Of course he himself confesses the great dif- ficulty of arriving at a knowledge of the position of the weakened or injured part in diseases, such as those described in this volume. And we can heartily feel with him when he says that “ in a very large number of cases, I fear it must remain problematical where the real seat of the disorder is.” Yet we gladly thank him for the multitude of cases and citations he has brought forward in sup- port of his views. One or two of the cases he reports seem to us especially interesting, as they tend to show that a purely local effect may produce intense pain, of such a nature that we think others who hold different views of sciatica might, if they were ignorant of the origin, readily attri- bute to some malady of the central nervous system. One of the cases was originally [1862] recorded in the Diihlin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science. It was one “ of embolism of the right common iliac, femoral and lower arteries. The symptoms were sudden acute pain in the calf of the leg, which was so tender](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28148174_0216.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
