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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    at once; repeat it if necessary, when there is pain, every eight hours, and keep it up as long as the pain is felt, even though it be for months. It is perfectly harmless when pro- perly administered, and it is the greatest blessing you can bestow on the unhappy sufferer. This has been my practice—with what result the following pages afford ample testimony. In conclusion, I have to offer my best thanks to the Editor of the Medical Times and Gazette. In that Journal most of the following pages originally appeared, and my gratitude is due for the kindness and courtesy which the Editor invariably extended to me while so long a series of communications travelled through the press. H. L. 10, George Street, Hanover Square, W. Note.—An error has unfortunately crept in while some of the earlier sheets went to press. It is in the spelling of the word Brachialgia. It has been corrected, however, in the later-issued sheets of the work, which, I may mention, were, owing to illness, written long after the previous ones.