United States or Libya ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


Cadiot and Almy recommend vaginal douches of cold water and counterirritation of the region of the inner thigh in these cases. Paralysis of the Sciatic Nerve. Anatomy. Near the stifle it passes between the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and continues as the tibial. Etiology and Occurrence.

#The Sciatic Nerve.# When this nerve is compressed, as by sitting on a fence, there is tingling and powerlessness in the limb as a whole, known as "sleeping" of the limb, but these phenomena are evanescent. Injuries to the great sciatic nerve are rare except in war.

But I am so far from wishing these courses extended, that I think some of them suppose I say my own would almost bear curtailing. Do you want me to describe more branches of the sciatic and crural nerves? I can take Fischer's plates, and lecturing on that scale fill up my whole course and not finish the nerves alone.

Given a belief in the constant presence of the unseen and its frequent manifestation, such a story as that of Peniel might well arise from an unexplained injury to the sciatic muscle, while more than one ailment of the heart or liver might perhaps suggest the touch of a beckoning god. There is of course no connexion between the Sumerian and Hebrew stories beyond their common background.

Within an hour after the application of the whole-body packs and the cold ablutions, the blood was sufficiently drawn away from the local congestion in the throat into the surface of the body, so that the child breathed easily and freely, and from then on made a splendid recovery. Another instance: A man had been suffering from sciatic rheumatism for fifteen years.

Brown-Sequard gives the following summary of his observations on guinea-pigs, and this summary is so important that I will quote the whole: "'1st. Appearance of epilepsy in animals born of parents having been rendered epileptic by an injury to the spinal cord. "'2nd. Appearance of epilepsy also in animals born of parents having been rendered epileptic by the section of the sciatic nerve. "'3rd.