Spinal irritation (posterior spinal anaemia) / by William A. Hammond.

Date:
1886
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Credit: Spinal irritation (posterior spinal anaemia) / by William A. Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but which, in a system of nomenclature based upon morbid anatomy, would preferably be named spinal anaemia. In the recently published nomenclature of the Royal College of Physicians,* the affection has no place unless it be included under the head of hysteria. The first author who distinctly grouped together the symptoms of spinal irritation was J. Frank,f who, under the name of rachialgia, described the disorder with considerable accuracy, and laid the principal stress upon the local pain. He was followed by Stie- bel,]; who, however, contributed little to our knowledge of the subject. Mr. J. R. Player§ was among the first English physicians, if not the very first, to call attention to the fact that eccentric derangement of function may be the result of irritation of the spinal cord. Thus he says: “ Most medical practitioners who have attended to the subject of spinal disease must have observed that its symptoms frequently resemble various and dis- * The Nomenclature of Diseases drawn up by a Joint Committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. London, 1869, f De Rachialgitide in Prax. Med. Univ., P. IL, t. i., p. 37. t Ueber Neuralgia Rachitica, Rust’s Magazine, t. i., c, xvi., p. 549. § Quarterly Journal of Science, vol. xii., p. 428. Quoted by Teale.