Pain and its indications : an analytical outline of diagnosis and treatment / by Edward C. Hill.

  • Hill, Edward C. (Edward Curtis), 1863-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Pain and its indications : an analytical outline of diagnosis and treatment / by Edward C. Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    INTRODUCTION. Local inflammatory pain.—Generally severe, constant, throbbing, sticking, cutting, gnawing, radiating along peripheral nerves and increased by firm deep pressure and by movement of part; with heat, redness, swelling and rigidity and dif- fuse soreness of muscles over affected part, or disturbance of function. Constant aching in mus- cular pain; dull pain in connective tissues (aching) and mucous membranes (soreness or burning) ; sharp and stabbing in serous tissues (increased by deep breathing in pleural and peri- toneal) ; tingling and shooting along nerve in neuritis (with herpes and tenderness all along course) and neuralgia (tender points and often local flushing; sometimes due to pressure by growths or scars); burning and itching in local skin lesions; constant, deep, boring in diseases of bones and periosteum—often worse at night; modified by weather in neuralgic, neuritic lithe- mic or rheumatic pain; paroxysmal, colicky in obstruction of channels. General pain, soreness and fatigue in toxemia; general aching, sometimes with chill, at onset of acute infections. Pain increased by movement in diseases of bones, joints, muscles and nerves; pain diminished or absent in shock or gangrene.