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it removed by electric shocks repeated every day for a fortnight 

 through the affected side. 



Pains of the side may be sometimes occasioned by the adhe- 

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

 or to the adhesion of some abdominal viscera to their cavity, or 

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

 the unnatural and ungraceful pressure of tight stays, or by sitting 

 or lying too long in one posture. But in these cases the pain 

 should be more of the smarting, than of the dull kind. 



M. M. Ether. A blister. A plaster of Burgundy pitch. 

 An issue or seton on the part. Electric shocks. Friction on 

 the part with oil and camphor. Loose dress. Frequent change 

 of posture both in the day and night. Internally, opium, vale- 

 rian, bark. 



15. Sdaticafrigida. Cold sciatica. The pain along the 

 course of the sciatic nerve, from the hip quite down to the top of 

 the fool, when it is not attended with fever, is improperly termed 

 either rheumatism or gout; as it occurs without inflammation, is 

 attended with pain when the limb is at rest; and as the pain at- 

 tends the course of the nerve, and not the course of the muscles, 

 or of the fascia which contains them. The theory of Cotunnius, 

 who believed it to be a dropsy of the sheath of the nerve, which 

 was compressed by the accumulated fluid, has not been confirm- 

 ed by dissection. The disease seems to consist of a torpor of 

 this sheath of the nerve; and the pain seems to be in consequence 

 of this torpor. See Class II. 1. 2. 17. 



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

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

 And a blister at the same time, a little above the knee-joint on 

 the outside of the thigh, where the sciatic nerve is not so deep 

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

 silk, or with a plaster bandage of emplastrum de rninio. 



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

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

 without motion, it belongs to this genus of diseases, and resem- 

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

 branes are extensive, and more easily fall into quiescence, either 

 by sympathy, or when they are primarily affected, this disease be- 

 comes very afflicting, and of great pertinacity. See Class II. 1. 

 2. 17. 



M. M. Venesection. A cathartic. Issues on the loins. 

 Adhesive plaster on the loins. Blister on the os sacrum. Warm 

 bath. Cold bath. Remove to a warmer climate in the winter. 

 Loose dress about the waist. Friction daily with oil and cam- 

 phor. 



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