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:
1872
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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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    lie was very mucli better, though still in pain. He said it seemed to relieve him for about twenty-four hours, but not longer. I ordered him to be injected again. Unfortunately, owing to my absence from the hospital for a month or so, I did not see him again till September 3rd. He told me that he had been injected three or four times during my absence by my assistant, but that it had given him a great deal of pain and no relief, so he had left it off till my return. I found that he had been injected with a solution different from mine, [though of the same strength,] for it was kept fluid by means of acid. This is a most objec- tionable method of preparing a fluid for hypo- dermic injection. It always gives pain, and frequently, perhaps on this account, gives no relief. On the 6th of September, I commenced to inject him again, with my own solution, and with the dose above mentioned. On the 10th I found him very much better. The in- jection was then increased to iniv., and was kept up without any other treatment till the 15th of October. Each day that it was done, be informed me how much better he was; and on the 20th, which was after the last day it was done, he was discharged perfectly well and strong, and without pain. I look on this K