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it removed by dearie (hocks repeated every day for a fortnight 

 through the arreted fide. 



Pains of the fide may he fometimes occasioned by the adhe- 

 lion of the lungs to the pleura, after an inflammation of them ; 

 or to the adheiion of fume abdominal vifcera to their cavity, cr 

 to each other ; which alfo are more liable to affect ladies from 

 the unnatural and ungraceful preflure of tight flays, or by fitting 

 or lying too long in one pofture. But in thefe cafes the pain 

 ihould be more of the fmarting, than of the dull kind. 



14. M. Ether. A blifter. A plafter of Burgundy pitch. 

 An iffue or feton on the part. Electric mocks. Friction on 

 the part with oil and camphor. Loofe drefs. Frequent change 

 of pofture both m the day and night. Internally, opium, vale- 

 rian, bark. 



15. Sciatica frigida. Cold fciatica. The pain along the 

 cpurfe of the fciatic nerve, from the hip quite down to the top 

 oi the foot, when it is not attended with fever, is improperly 

 termed either rheumatifm or gout; as it occurs without inflam- 

 mation, is attended with pain when the limb is at reft ; and *as 

 the pain attends the courle of the nerve, and not the courie of 

 the mufcles, or of the fafcia which contains them. The theory 

 of Cotunnius, who believed it to be a dropfy of the (heath of the 

 nerve, which was coirmrefled bv the accumulated fluid, has not 

 been confirmed by diifeetion. The difeafe feems to eonilft of a 

 torpor of this (heath of the nerve, and the pain feerns io be in 

 Confeouence of this torpor. See Clafs II. 1.2. 17. 



M. ' X * 



M. M. Veneteetion. A cathartic. And then one grain of 

 calomel and one of opium every night for ten fucceiiive nights. 

 And a blifter, at the fame time, a little above the knee-joint on 

 the outfide of the thigh, where the fciatic nerve, is not fo deep 

 ieated. Warm bath. Cold bath. Cover the limb with oiled 

 111!;, or with a plafter-handage of emplaftrum de minio. 



16. Lumbago frigida. Cold lumbago. When no fever or 

 inflammation attends this pain of the loins, and the pain exifts 

 without motion, it belongs to this genus of diieafes, and refem- 

 bles the pain of the loins in the cold fit of ague. As thefe mem- 

 branes are extenfive, and more eatlly fall into quiefcence, either 

 by fympathy, or when they are primarily affected, this difeafe 

 becomes very afflicting, and of great pertinacity. See Oafs II. 

 I. 2. 17. 



M. M. Venefection. A cathartic. IfTues ou the loins. 

 Adhefive plafter on the loins. Blifter on the os facrum. Warm 

 b tii. Coid bath. Remove to a warmer climate in the winter. 

 Loofe drefs about the waift. Friction daily with oil and cam- 

 phcr. 



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