Spinal affections : a popular lecture on disorders and diseases of the spine ... / by Henry Crowhurst Roods.

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1841
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    lous symptoms termed hysterical, would ])rove an endless and hopeless, as well as an unprofitable task. The sensations of smarting, tingling, burning, the pains, tenderness and so forth referred by one to the back, by another to the chest, abdomen, legs, arms, or head, are a few of the symptoms called hysterical, and I feel perfectly assured that the presence of morbid action in some structure of the body must give rise to them ; and seeing that those ner\'es, branches of which are distributed over the whole surface of the skin, as well as to the muscles and other structures proceed from the spinal marrow, it is probable that morbid sensations similar in cha- racter, such as described above affecting all or any parts of the surface of the body, may result from some peculiar state or condition of the spinal chord, its membranes or other textures connected with the roots of the nerves. I wiU not affirm that all ano- malous morbid sensations such as are alluded to above, depend on spinal irritation; but I know and unhesitatingly assert, that many of those miscalled hysterical aflfections. simulating spinal disease, are in fact, cases of spinal irritation, which are in general easily curable, by a short and rational course of treatment. As these affections are not characterised by a class of symptoms, common to all, but on the contrary.