On myalgia : its nature, causes, and treatment : being a treatise on painful and other affections of the muscular system, which have been frequently mistaken for hysterical, inflammatory, hepatic, uterine, nervous, spinal or other diseases / by Thomas Inman.

  • Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On myalgia : its nature, causes, and treatment : being a treatise on painful and other affections of the muscular system, which have been frequently mistaken for hysterical, inflammatory, hepatic, uterine, nervous, spinal or other diseases / by Thomas Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on Monday. D.—How long have you been sucli a sufferer ? P.—For six weeks. D.—A^^iat business are you ? P.—An upliolsteress. D.—What have you to do ? P.—To sew fringe to curtains, make up hangings, and so on. D.—Has that been your business for a long time ? P.—Yes. D.—AVhat are your hours ? P.—From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. D.—Have you any time for dinner ? P.—Yes, an hour. D.—What do you do then ? P.—Take a walk. D.—Have you any cough ? P.—No. D.—Have you ever spat blood ? P.—No. D.—Ov got thinner lately ? P.—No. D.—Have you a good appetite ? P.—Pretty fair, D.—Are your parents healthy ? P.—Wh}^, they are not to say ill, but they are not very strong. D.—Have you indigestion ? P.—No. D.—Are you regular ? P.—Yes. D.—Do you lose much blood ? P.—No. D.—Do you suffer from pUes ? P.—No. D.—Are you much purged ? P.—No. D.—Do you sweat much at night? P.—Not much. D.—Now tell me, have you not a good deal of pain here ? (touching the sacrum). P.—Yes, sir. D.—And you suffer a great deal from whites, do you not ? P. (with rather open eyes) —Yes, sir, and they weaken me very much indeed, D.—One more question : you have had them for two months or thereabouts ? P.—Yes, sir, and I never had them before. The influence such a dialogue has upon the patient may be readily conceived, and the fidelity with which the directions will be carried out may be relied on. In the case of which the above is an absolutely faithful outline, I recommended the patient to sit daily in a washhand-bason with some cold water in it, so as to ensure a purely local cold bath, an astringent injection if necessary, rest at the dinner hour instead of walk- ing, as generous a diet as could be afforded, and steel was to be taken as a tonic. If these things were assiduously employed, I ventured to promise a cure in about three weeks. My