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A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1738
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Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sciatica, or Hip Gout. rtpHE fciatica is a continual, heavy, dull,Definition. JL gnawing pain, in or about the hip-joint, and parts adjacent. 2. The caufe hereof may be the fame withCaufe. that of the gout; but it appears to be moil com¬ monly die catching of cold, or being expofed to the open air. It may alfo be occafion’d by con- tufions* and the venereal difeafe. 3. A pain like this often feizes fuch perfons as have had the thigh-bone diftocated, efpecially in change of weather, from hot to cold ; and fometimes continue fo during the winter. The fciatica attacks men and women indifferently ; and the young as frequently as the old. An infk^nmation, 0r tumor, feldom appears exter¬ nally ; the pain is not fo acute as in other kinds of the gout: and tho* it has fe millions, yet it is generally continual, and increafed by walking, or fitting long in the fame pofture. When the cafe is of a long continuance, and efpecially in tender, lax, or corpulent confti- tutions, there fometimes happens a relaxation of the ligaments, • which caufes a lamenefs, and a pain in motion, and when increas'd, a partial dif- location. Sometimes alfo, the fame diforder will happen in ancient perfons, from a caufe relaxing or contracting the nerves ; by which thofe of the thighs, legs, and feet, are obffruCted, fo as to bring on a paralyfis, and afterwards an atro- phia of the parts. 4. The fciatica is fcarce ever mortal, and fel-Prognoflics. dom dangerous, but often of long continuance ; and if it proceed from blows, falls, the venereal difeafe, old age, &c. the patient often relapfes in cold weather, and continues ill for the greateff D d part