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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    The history of Sciatica is, it must honestly be confessed, the record of pathological ignorance and of therapeutical failure. It presents to us a blurred page whereon we find traced the results of confused reasoning, incomplete generalisation, hasty observation, and unphilo- sophic methods of treatment. From the cir- cumstance that the affection itself is rarely fatal, it has failed to arrest the entire attention of the great masters of our art, and because of the fact that the patient who is afflicted with it loudly demands relief, its treatment has seldom been pursued with that persistence in any one remedy which is so essential to the drawing of just and reliable conclusions. Being a disease, in which a symptom is essentially the leading feature, so far at least as our knowledge yet extends, it has been often confounded with other maladies, such as rheumatism and morbus coxae, and, being b 2
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