Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.
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in the female, or towards the testis in the male, which will often be retracted by the action of the spermatic nerve upon the cre- master muscle; and there will be more or less irritation com- municated to the mucous membrane of the bladder. Then the urine will deposit mucous, calculous matter, blood, pus, or albumen, or it may be otherwise morbid in its composition. 7. If the " loin pain " be from the uterus, then the pain will be greatly in the back, and arise cither from disordered function, or from disease of the uterus. In the former case the pain will be more of a neuralgic character, and it will return in forcing paroxysms, extending all around the hips and hypogastric re- gion ; will often be attended with some hysteria, or with in- creased menstrual discharge. In the latter case, that is, if from organic disease, the pain will be constant and severe, extending along the anterior crural nerve half way down the thighs. There will probably bo a thin, offensive discharge from the vagina. The countenance will be wan and sallow, exhibiting the wear and tear of organic lesion. 8. If the given " loin pain " proceeds from the colon, there will be constipation, or inflation along the course of the bowel, or the fecal discharges will be of small and perhaps flattened di- ameter, or there will be marked soreness of the intestine under pressure ; especially is this found along its ascending or de- scending portions, and is attended occasionally with passage of mucus or shreds of lymph, much in the form of a yellow soft jelly or phlegm, but more frequently as wet bits of drab-colored ribbons, stretching along on the outside of the hardened alvine excretions. (See Appendix E, Notes 1, 3, and G, Note 4.) The correct diagnosis of painful nervous affections of the hip is of the utmost importance, and yet is not always so easy. I will therefore sum up the different characteristics or peculiarities of six of the most distinct affections of the hip, that may here be confounded, or mistaken the one for the other, viz.: true sciatica, neuralgia, coxalgia, rheumatica, disease of the spine, and disease of the pelvic bones, among which we may reckon the sacro-iliac disease. According to Dr. Frank Hamilton, pro- fessor of surgery at the Buffalo Medical College, and Dr. John