Sciatica, a fresh study / by William Bruce.

  • Bruce, William.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Sciatica, a fresh study / by William Bruce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He proceeded on this assumption to classify the complaint as acute and chronic. Once started with a good-going hypothesis, explanation is easy, and the treatment of symptoms can be readily adapted to correspond. He makes little reference to the physical con- dition of the affected limb, and I doubt very much if he troubled to make any systematic examination of the part affected. His praises as to the advan- tage of the use of an air or water bed are much to be commended. The after-discussion elicited no fresh points, and need not be referred to. Brindley James's plan of treatment belongs mainly to the usual category. Coming to still later writers of authority, Aldren Turner, and Grainger Stewart's Hand- book of Nervous Diseases,* may be shortly referred to. They allow that the pain of sciatica is a common accompaniment of osteo-arthritis of the hip-joint, as (they say very truly) brachial neuralgia is frequently associated with a similar affection of the shoulder-joint. They adopt the accepted opinions as to the pathology and etiology of the disease, and likewise of its diagnosis. They speak of altered electric excitability of the muscles, and refer without particulars to the use of the Rontgen rays as bearing on the latter question. * 1910.