Pyretic treatment of rheumatism and allied and disorders / by Percy Wilde.

  • Wilde, Percy (Percy Roberts), 1856 or 1857-1929.
Date:
1928
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    find the point of tenderness in the lumbar region. It is only by restoring the normal functions of these nerves that cure will be obtained. This condition may be complicated by gout or rheumatism in the joint, and in such cases there is great danger of defective nutrition leading to destructive changes in the joint. The examina¬ tion of these nerves should be a matter of routine when diagnosing knee-joint cases. But in some cases these two nerves are the subject of acute pain, especially the external cutaneous, and is usually diagnosed as sciatica. In chronic cases of injury of nerves, I find electric vibration, followed by deep friction across the nerve trunk, until the part is v/arm to the touch, the best general remedy. Vibration over the site of pain will be useless. It must be applied to the trunk of the nerve as close to its exit from the spine as possible. In respect to the class of cases last mentioned, I may point out that pain on the inside of the knee, above the internal condyle, is a frequent symptom of the reflex pain of hip disease, but in these reflex pains there is no tenderness over the surface of the nerve, therefore exact diagnosis is easy. But in some cases of injury of the lumbar plexus, rheumatism appears in the sheath of the nerve